Contents

1. Introduction

1. Translation, power, conflict



2. Why narrative?



3. Overview of Chapters

1. Introducing narrative theory


2.1 The status and effects of narrativity

2.2 Defining narrative

2.3 The political import of narratives


2. A typology of narrative


3.1 Ontological narratives

3.2 Public narratives

3.3 Conceptual (disciplinary) narratives

3.4 Meta- (master) narratives




3. Understanding how narratives work: features of narrativity I


4.1 Temporality (Bruner’s narrative diachronicity)

4.2 Relationality (Hermeneutic composability)

4.3 Causal emplotment

4.4 Selective appropriation


4. Understanding how narratives work: features of narrativity II


5.1 Particularity

5.2 Genericness

5.3 Normativeness/canonicity and breach

5.4 Narrative accrual


5. Framing narratives in translation


6.1 Framing, frame ambiguity and frame space

6.2 Temporal and spatial framing

6.3 Selective appropriation of textual material

6.4 Framing by labelling

6.5 Repositioning of participants


6. Assessing narratives: the narrative paradigm