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- noun An
introspective recounting of a person'sdevelopment .
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Examples
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Children of the Pyre: A 73-minute feature-length documentary in a self-narrative format about seven children who make their living off the dead in the town of Manikarnika — the busiest cremation grounds in India.
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Just as we cannot rationally have prudential concern for someone else simply because we happen to incorporate (perhaps delusionally) their life into our self-narrative, similarly, if we are not otherwise warranted to have prudential concern for our own future self, we cannot change this simply by virtue of how we happen to construct our self-narrative.
Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making Jaworska, Agnieszka 2009
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For Vivian Gornick, self-narrative is a form of cultural criticism: The personal is decidedly political.
Vivian Gornick. 2009
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The continued stream of drone-inflicted civilian deaths feeds into a long-standing Pakistani self-narrative regarding the history of U.S. political intervention in Pakistani affairs.
Sanjeev Bery: "Pretend Secrecy" Shields the White House from a Drone Missile Debate 2009
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I just trust and am inspired more by Obama and I don't buy Edwards self-narrative or appreciate his race baiting.
Edwards Sharpens Attack On Clintons And "Corporate Democrats" 2009
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The Caplan self-narrative demonstrates the difficulties of accurately tracing out influence.
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The Caplan self-narrative demonstrates the difficulties of accurately tracing out influence.
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In which case you don't have a bureaucratic machine, you have a strangely complicated geo-autobiographical project, a self-narrative articulated even under the conformal pressures of the US military.
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In the most basic sense of the term, self-consciousness is not something that comes about the moment one attentively inspects or reflectively introspects one's experiences, or in the instant of self-recognition of one's image in the mirror, or in the proper use of the first-person pronoun, or in the construction of a self-narrative.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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In 1998 Carruth turned to a different form of self-narrative with
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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