Shaping History : Narratives of Political Change
Molly. Andrews
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2007
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (235 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 pronounOne 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; Revitalising 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 storiesSouth Africa, biography, and the politial 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; Bibliography; Index. - A detailed analysis of the relationship between history and biography in times of political change.
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| ISBN | 9780521604697. - 9780521843652
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