Apresentação - Narrativas biográficas, temporalidades e hermenêutica do sujeito

Abstract

Narrating an experience entails temporally organizing it, finding the words to be said and configuring moments and periods of life into a story. Thus, in order for the comprehension and self-formation processes to happen, the experience must become sayable, and then built into a story unity which may seem true and complete from the point of view of the narrator. In this sense, the temporal dimensions appear determinant to the formative effects of narration: duration of the lived experiences from which biographical narration unfolds; available time to compose a story, write it and socialize it; the time gap between experience and its narration; and others. This dossier aims to analyse the tensions evolving the dynamics of narrative’s temporalities, as well as its effects and the comprehension processes that arises from it.