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AUTOMOBILE MALFUNCTION IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
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Claypool, Richard C
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
Abstract
Critical everyday life scholarship tends to theorize the domain of everyday life as a site of struggle between institutional power and resistance. Oddly, moments of everyday crisis such as technological malfunction are often overlooked. This study has sought to address this gap through analyses of a particular kind of everyday crisis, the automobile malfunction. By analyzing personal narratives of automobile malfunction experiences, I have attempted to highlight the critical potential of these narratives. The automobile malfunction stories express implicit and explicit critique of the automobile’s role in everyday life. As everyday discourse, the stories counter the dominant discourse of automobile advertising and remain true to the tellers’ priorities of maintaining social relationships, restoring routines, and managing risks in everyday life.
Committee
Hai Ren (Advisor)
Pages
111 p.
Keywords
Automobile Malfunction
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Everyday Life
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Personal Narrative
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Technology
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Resistance
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Claypool, R. C. (2006).
AUTOMOBILE MALFUNCTION IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143235179
APA Style (7th edition)
Claypool, Richard.
AUTOMOBILE MALFUNCTION IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND EVERYDAY LIFE.
2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143235179.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Claypool, Richard. "AUTOMOBILE MALFUNCTION IN PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND EVERYDAY LIFE." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143235179
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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