Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)

Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

by Keith Berry

In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women. Author Keith Berry’s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add important relational communication, methodological, and ethical dimensions to their accounts. The personal stories create an opening to understand how this form of physical and verbal violence shapes identities, relationships, communication, and the construction of meaning among a variety of youth. The layered narrative

200 pages, Paperback

Published May 10, 2016