There have been many studies of patient's illness narratives which add empirical weight to the theoretical centrality of narrative in meaning-making.
"They put themselves at the center of the narrative that reinforces the centrality of whiteness in South Africa".
The enduring centrality of narrative was discussed by Nikolaus Pevsner in his 1955 Reith Lectures, later published as The Englishness of English Art.
Since, however, it involves more than mere performance (i.e., dysphoria concerning one's body) as well as the centrality of narrative, it ought to be distinguished from generic understandings of queer.
According to critic Ellen McCracken, "Transgression and incestuous overtones may not be the usual fare of the mainstream's desirable multicultural commodity, but Alvarez's deployment of such narrative tactics foregrounds the centrality of the struggle against abuse of patriarchal power in this Dominican American's early contribution to the new Latina narrative of the 1990s".
They find it in works that foreground narratives that underscore the centrality of social connection, that describe how the quality of social life devolves from the quality of our social relations -- the real stuff of a soulful social science.
Giving someone's narrative other than Prospero's centrality might just be the start.
Yet for all the longstanding centrality of courage to any standard narrative of human greatness, only lately have researchers begun to study it systematically, to try to define what it is and is not, where it comes from, how it manifests itself in the body and brain, who we might share it with among nonhuman animals, and why we love it so much.
The initial item pool of 59 items included a range of memory characteristics important for emotional (including traumatic) memories, such as items about a physical/bodily emotional reaction during recall [ 28], narrative coherence and fragmentation [ 12], and the centrality of the event in a person's identity/life story [ 26].
Yoking such 'newsworthy' but otherwise abstract material to an individual narrative personalises the story, in line with the centrality of 'human interest' to general news and current affairs [ 38]; the items in these datasets invariably used medical tourists' experiences as 'hooks' for a wider discussion of the phenomenon.
