The Use and Abuse of Stories – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197571040, 0197571042

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197571042
• ISBN-13: 9780197571040
• Author: Mark P. Freeman, Hanna Meretoa
  

Narrative practice has come under attack in the current “post-truth” era. In fact, many associate “narrative hermeneutics”–the field of inquiry concerned with reflection on the meaning and interpretation of stories–directly with this putative movement beyond truth. Challenging this view, The Use and Abuse of Stories argues that this broad arena of inquiry instead serves as a vitally important vehicle for addressing and redressing the social and political problems at hand. Hanna Meretoja and Mark Freeman have gathered an interdisciplinary group of esteemed authors to explore how interpretation is relevant to current discussions in narrative studies and to the broader debate that revolves around issues of truth, facts, and narrative. The contributions turn to the tradition of narrative hermeneutics to emphasize that narrative is a cultural meaning-making practice that is integral to how we make sense of who we are and who we could be. Addressing topics ranging from the dangers of political narratives to questions of truth in medical and psychiatric practice, this volume shows how narrative hermeneutics contributes to topical debates both in interdisciplinary narrative studies and in the current cultural and political situation in which issues of truth have gained new urgency.

Table contents:

Part I Politics of Storytelling

1. The Inevitability, and Danger, of Narrative

2. Testimony: Truth, Lies, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

3. Hermeneutic Awareness in Uncertain Times: Post-Truth, Narrative Agency, and Existential Diminishment

Part II Understanding the Self

4. Verstehen and Narrative

5. “Be Loyal to the Story”: Sorrow, Narrative, and Truth-Telling

6. Narrative as an Interpretation of Self-Pattern

7. Speaking of Elves, Dragons, and Werewolves: Narrative Hermeneutics and Other-than-Human Identities

Part III Understanding the Other

8. Identity, Understanding, and Narrative

9. Found in Translation: Solicitude and Linguistic Hospitality in Storytelling

10. The Hermeneutics of Darkness: Interpreting Perpetrators on Their Crimes

11. Perpetrator Histories, Silencing and Untold Stories: A View from Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Part IV Narrative Practices

12. Literary and Film Narratives

13. Queer Perspectives on Narrative Practices in Asylum Politics

14. Narrative Medicine: The Book at the Gates of Biomedicine

15. Psychiatric Truth and Narrative Hermeneutics

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