The Politics of Storytelling: Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt
- ISBN-10
- 8763540363
- ISBN-13
- 9788763540360
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-12
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Author
- Michael Jackson
Description
Hannah Arendt argued that the “political” is best understood as a power relation between private and public realms, and that storytelling is a vital bridge between these realms—a site where individualized passions and shared perspectives are contested and interwoven. Jackson explores and expands Arendt’s ideas through a cross-cultural analysis of storytelling that includes Kuranko stories from Sierra Leone, Aboriginal stories of the stolen generation, stories recounted before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and stories of refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are and are not told, and exploring the various ways in which narrative reworkings of reality enable people to symbolically alter subject-object relations, Jackson shows how storytelling may restore existential viability to the intersubjective fields of self and other, self and state, self and situation.
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