Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age - Couverture souple

Lenart-Cheng, Helga

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813948398 ISBN 13 : 9780813948393

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2022

Synopsis

Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possible. The #MeToo movement provides a prime example of how such pooling of individual stories, in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements, fortify a sense of solidarity and community, and compel public reckoning by bringing important issues into mainstream consciousness.

In this timely and important study, Helga Lenart-Cheng has uncovered the antecedents of this phenomenon and provided a historical and critical analysis of this seemingly new but in fact deeply rooted tradition. Story Revolutions features a rich variety of case studies, from eighteenth-century memoir collections to contemporary Web 2.0 databases, including memoir contests, digital story-maps, crowd-sourced Covid diaries, and AI-assisted life writing. It spans the Enlightenment, the 1930s, and the twenty-first century--three historical periods marked by a convergence of mass movements and new methods of data collection that led to a boom in activism based in the aggregation and communication of stories. Ultimately, this book offers readers a critical perspective on the concept of community itself, with incisive reflections on what it means to use storytelling to build democracy in the twenty-first century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helga Lenart-Cheng is Associate Professor at St. Mary's College of California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813948398
• ISBN 13: 9780813948393
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible