"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles
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How can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research
often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited
from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods
employed. In this essay we begin to build a counter-narrative about reading and reading
studies research by investigating readers’ negative emotions through an experiment with a
different method. After revisiting our earlier work with interviews and focus groups, we
explore how and why we designed a participatory approach that employs aspects of the
Story Circles method (Kurtz 2014). We contend that using a creative method that
foregrounds the co-construction of narrative and interpretation and that explicitly
encourages narrative as a type of performance enables both researchers and participants to
explore a fuller range of emotions about reading experiences. This method also helps us to
actively re-negotiate the positions of researcher and research subject.
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