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Curated Stories
By Fernandes
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Description
In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies to argue that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misión Cultura project in Venezuela to show how the conditions under which the stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements.
Not just a critical examination of contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2017-09-08
Publication Date:
2011-02-09
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0190618043
ISBN13:
9780190618049
Weight:
511 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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