Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance

by Shari Stone-Mediatore

While social movements from workers' rights campaigns to environmental justice coalitions publicize their struggles by narrating people's experiences, recent critiques of ""experience"" and ""identity"" challenge the authority of such texts. How can we acknowledge the dangers of appeals to experience and identity, and yet still use the powerful tools of storytelling to counter ideological narratives? Bringing together the work of Hannah Arendt and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295669
• ISBN13: 9780312295660
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"