Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense: 4 (Studies in Narrative) - Hardcover

9789027226440: Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense: 4 (Studies in Narrative)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902722644X ISBN 13: 9789027226440

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors. A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book.

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