Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. In "The Politics of Storytelling", anthropologist Michael Jackson explores and expands on Arendts notions, bringing stories from all around the world into impressive crosscultural analysis. Jackson retells stories from the Kuranko in Sierre Leone, the Australian Aboriginals, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are told or silenced he explores the power of narrative to remake reality, enabling people to symbolically alter their relations and help reclaim an existential viability. Above all, he shows how Arendts writings on narrative deepen our understanding of the critical, therapeutic, and politic role of storytelling, that it is one of the crucial ways by which we understand one another.

Binding: Paperback;312 pages; Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press; Classification: JHMC; Weight: 712 g; Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 26

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