Identity, Narrative and PoliticsRoutledge, 4 apr 2014 - 192 pagina's Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding. This title uses a broad international selection of Twentieth Century English language works, by writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Thomas Pynchon. |
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... characteristics and elements, have a bearing on the political. I suggest that identity is, primarily, a matter of the stories persons tell others about themselves, plus the stories others tell about those persons and/or other stories in ...
... characteristic features of narrative. For that reason, I look at novels as accessible instances of narrative in practice. Turning to narratives - modern novels - allows for observation of how identity is constructed, through attention ...
... characteristics, given or chosen - 'given' by characteristics such as age or gender, which can be affirmed or denied, or 'chosen', either by affirming or denying given characteristics, or by adopting non-given characteristics ...
... characteristics whereby persons can be grouped for political purposes by a wide range of identificatory characteristics: nationality, geographical place or regional location, race, ethnicity, family or kinship, language, class, sex ...
... characteristic is 'that it renders understanding only by connecting (however unstably) parts to a constructed configuration or a social network of relationships (however incoherent or unrealizable) composed of symbolic, institutional ...
Inhoudsopgave
The narrative construction of identity | 22 |
Uncertain identity | 43 |
Gaps and fragments | 64 |
Contingency identity and agency | 87 |
Coherent identity | 107 |
Narrative identity and politics | 127 |
Postscript | 150 |