Biography and biographical narratives

What is biography

Analyzing Biographical, Narrative and Discursiv This book tackles the challenges of how to make sense of qualitative data.


biography and biographical narratives

Narrative biography in research

This chapter describes the biographic narrative interpretive method (BNIM).


How to write a biography

As a qualitative research method, biographic narrative interpretative method (BNIM) explores the stories or narratives from interviewees’ lives (Wengraf, ).

Biographical narrative example
The conventions of biography, assiduously followed by Hildesheimer, make us believe in the reality of the subject; the work looks and reads like a biography, full of practical details and .