Contents: 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 pronoun -- One 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 -- Revitalizing 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 stories -- South Africa, biography and the political 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

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Label: Shaping history : narratives of political change, Molly Andrews, (electronic resource)

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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Contents: 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 pronoun -- One 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 -- Revitalizing 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 stories -- South Africa, biography and the political 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

Control code: CR9780511557859

Dimensions: unknown

Extent: 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)

Form of item: online

Governing access note: Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community

Isbn: 9780511557859

Media category: computer

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Specific material designation: remote

System control number: (OCoLC)829706594

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