Storied communities : narratives of contact and arrival in constituting political community / edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lessard, Hester, 1948-

Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-

Webber, Jeremy H. A., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The--Congresses.

State, The.

Folklore and nationalism--Congresses.

Folklore and nationalism.

Nationalism and collective memory--Congresses.

Nationalism and collective memory.

Storytelling--Congresses.

Storytelling.

Political participation--Congresses.

Political participation.

Indigenous peoples--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples.

Immigrants--Congresses.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories � narratives of contact and narratives of arrival � helped to define settler societies. We are only beginning to understand how ongoing issues of migration and settlement are linked to issues of indigenous-settler contact. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors do not attempt to build a new master narrative � they instead juxtapose narratives of contact and arrival as they explore key themes: narrative and narrative form, the nature and hazards of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives and storytelling. By bringing to light the links between narratives of contact and narratives of arrival, this volume opens up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction

pt. 2. Narratives of contact and arrival in the Canadian political space

pt. 3. Narratives and narrative form

pt. 4. Contact and its narratives

pt. 5. Arrival and its narratives

pt. 6. Institutional implications : how would we do things differently if we took narrative seriously?

pt. 7. Theoretical implications : where do we go from here?

Notes:

"The chapters in this volume are drawn from papers presented at a Demcon workshop titled 'Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community,' held at the University of Victoria in December 2006"--P. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-1881-6

OCLC:

758523736