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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... relationships between narrative, identity and politics. My discussion moves around the interconnections, drawing out where there is - actually or potentially — interplay between narrative identity and politics, and finally suggesting ...
... relationship of the individual and the state, to the characteristics of members of groups, or, in a wider meaning beyond the political identity of persons, to the identity of political entities - groups significant in the political ...
... relationship of the person to the political order or as a function of inclusion in political units and as referring to certain characteristics whereby persons can be grouped for political purposes by a wide range of identificatory ...
... relationship between them, distinguish narrative from mere descriptions of qualities, states or situations. Narratives are 'complex organizational schemata which involve agents, events, time, consciousness, memory, judgment, language ...
... relationship to other events': its chief 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 ...
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 |