The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory

This article presents a novel methodological approach to data collection/production: the Performative Narrative Interview (PNI). was developed as part of an empirical study on processual construction sexual identity sexually diverse men* in Santiago de Chile. By drawing upon narrative-dialogic theoretical frameworks subjectivity, PNI makes explicit three aspects narrative interviews that tend either remain unaddressed or are treated separately within inquiry: performative, creative and intersubjective. The utilizes these generate interview framework, detailed here, which multiple versions subjectivity can emerge. We suggest methods like PNI, support this multiplicity surface, lead production deeper more complex than traditional able produce.