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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.
Contents
Introduction: Challenges and Prospects of Narrative Hermeneutics in Tumultuous Times
Hanna Meretoja and Mark Freeman
Part I: Politics of Storytelling
Chapter 1: The Inevitability, and Danger, of Narrative
Mark Freeman
Chapter 2: Testimony: Truth, Lies, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Colin Davis
Chapter 3: Hermeneutic Awareness in Uncertain Times: Post-truth, Narrative Agency, and Existential Diminishment
Hanna Meretoja
Part II: Understanding the Self
Chapter 4: Verstehen and narrative
Jens Brockmeier
Chapter 5: "Be Loyal to the Story": Sorrow, Narrative, and Truth-telling
Molly Andrews
Chapter 6: Narrative as an Interpretation of Self-Pattern
Shaun Gallagher
Chapter 7: Speaking of Elves, Dragons, and Werewolves: Narrative Hermeneutics and Other-than-Human Identities
Clive Baldwin, Lauren Ripley, and Shania Arsenault
Part III: Understanding the Other
Chapter 8: Identity, Understanding, and Narrative
Georgia Warnke
Chapter 9: Found in Translation: Solicitude and Linguistic Hospitality in Storytelling
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Chapter 10: The Hermeneutics of Darkness: Interpreting Perpetrators on their Crimes
Brian Schiff, Kaylee Altimore, and Genevieve Bougher
Chapter 11: Perpetrator Histories, Silencing and Untold Stories: A View from Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Roger Frie
Part IV: Narrative Practices
Chapter 12: Literary and Film Narratives
Jakob Lothe
Chapter 13: Queer Perspectives on Narrative Practices in Asylum Politics
Ada Schwanck
Chapter 14: Narrative Medicine: The Book at the Gates of Biomedicine
Danielle Spencer
Chapter 15: Psychiatric Truth and Narrative Hermeneutics
Bradley Lewis
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