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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... literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf. Between proposal and publication, this book has been subject to the unfortunately not uncommon vagaries of the publishing business. I am therefore grateful to both Caroline ...
... literary narratives, and it would certainly seem over-scrupulous to apply narrative theory or the literary critical understanding of narrative to such usages. However, in the case of political uses of 'narrative identity', it might be ...
... literary works') (Mulhall and Swift 1996: 76, 87). A specifically political gloss is put on the understanding of the ubiquity of narrating as a human activity by the assertion that 'the formation of subjects is the primal political ...
... literary narratives - novels. Not surprisingly, literary studies have something to say about narrative identity. It is claimed that 'the history of identity is a good deal more visibly and colourfully exhibited in fiction than in ...
... literary studies about the application of 'postmodern' as a label for fiction. Such labelling is highly contentious, as indicated by the variety of labelling attached to the novels I refer to. Novels commonly characterized as ...
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 |