Shaping history : narratives of political change / Molly Andrews.
"Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship betw...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. History, biography, and political narratives
- Old and new stories
- The power of political narratives
- 2. Reflections on listening
- The construction of audience
- Research and desire
- Telling and 'tell-ability'
- Hearing the told and the untold
- The myth of the 'empowerment narrative'
- 3. England: stories of inspiration
- In search of stories of inspiration
- Context of the research
- Why life histories?
- Stories of radicalisation
- Keeping the faith
- Our letters
- Entering and exiting lives
- 4. The USA: narratives of patriotism
- 'My' country: The complexity of the personal pronoun
- One town's experience of patriotism during the Gulf War
- 'Good citizens'
- Patriotism and its discontents
- Kicking the 'Vietnam Syndrome'
- The frozen frame of 9/11
- Revitalizing the national narrative
- Looking back to the time before the frame froze
- 5. East Germany. The contested story
- Background to the original project
- Constructing/constructed audience
- Oppositional activists and internal critics in the GDR
- The search for a narratable past
- Identity, imagination, and the Wall
- A question of generations
- Forgiveness and reworking the past
- 6. South Africa: told and untold stories
- South Africa, biography and the political imagination
- The 'miracle' of the TRC
- The 'talking cure'?
- Personal and historical narratives: the making of collective memory
- 7. Questions and endings
- Yearning for morality plays
- Beginnings and endings
- Individual identities and imagined communities
- Political narratives over time.