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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 33
... characters and events, together with commentary on them, have been put together to present - show - a certain interpretation of a set of facts. And her talk of conspiracy, or herself omitting to 2 Identity, narrative and politics.
... present there is a small cottage industry . . . awash in a sea of claims . . . about narrative' (Dienstag 1997: 209). Or again, 'References to narrative and storytelling have become an almost obligatory gesture for theorists who defy ...
... present action in the form of an "and then"' (Taylor 1989: 47). Furthermore, 'social life itself is storied', and 'narrative is an ontological condition of social life' (Somers 1994: 614) - 'in offering an explanation of what we are ...
Je hebt de weergavelimiet voor dit boek bereikt.
Je hebt de weergavelimiet voor dit boek bereikt.
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 |