The politics of storytelling : variations on a theme by Hannah Arendt / / Michael Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797139403321
• Autore: Jackson Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Denmark] : , : Museum Musculanum Press, , 2013
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Collana: Critical Anthropology ; ; v.3
• Disciplina: 808.543
• Soggetti: Storytelling - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FRONT PAGE; TITLE PAGE ; COLOPHONE ; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; INTRODUCTION; The Narrative Imperative; Lines in the Sand; Storying and Journeying; Broken Journeys; PART I - DISPLACEMENTS; THE STORIES THAT SHADOW US; Violence as Reciprocity; Silent Casualties; Stolen Children; Recovering Narrative; The Ancient Mariner; "YOU NEVER SAW YOUR OWN FACES": REFLECTIONS ON PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY IN THE LIVES OF REFUGEES; Intersubjectivity and Violence; Stigmata and Status; The Fall into Inwardness; Publicizing the Lives of Refugees; Judgment, Redemption, and Recognition; IN EXTREMIS: REFUGEE STORIES /REFUGEE LIVESA Phenomenology of Flight; Flight and Narrativity; Sheer Happening; Sociality and Emotionality; What Happens to Who We Are; DISPLACEMENT, SUFFERING, AND THE CRITIQUE OF CULTURAL FUNDAMENTALISM; Culture in the Discourse of the Other; Us and Them; Thinking Ourselves beyond the Nation; PART II - RETURNS; PREAMBLE; RETALIATION AND RECONCILIATION; Where Stories Take Us; The Faces of Janus; The Two Momoris; Two Storytelling Sessions; The Story of Na Nyale; FROM THE TRAGIC TO THE COMIC; Rigid Virtues and Flexible Vices; The Drummer and the Muslims; The Seductive Woman and the MuslimThe Comic; The Promiscuous Woman; The Man Who Made Love to His Mother; The Bereaved Husband; The Great Farter; The Body as Common Ground; Turning Tragedy Around; The Historic Fart; PREVENTED SUCCESSIONS; Oedipus ; in Africa; The Story of Yata; Yata; To Be or Not to Be; The Mande Connection; The Yata Narrative: An Analysis; Aspects of Succession; Heracles; Ontogenetic Approaches; Psychophysical Imagery; On Walking into the World; PART III - HISTORIES; PREAMBLE; THE SOCIAL LIFE OF STORIES; The Blind Impress; Background Research; My Dear Mother; The Past in the PresentMoving On; Stories Within Stories; STORYTELLING AND CRITIQUE; Judging; Ethnographic Judgment; The Visiting Imagination; THE SINGULAR AND THE SHARED; The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairytales; The Privacy and Publicity of Dreams; Censorship and the Episteme; Celebrity Death; Refiguring the Personal; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; BACK COVER