Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric
In seeking a path to mediating feminist and anti-feminist narratives, one must begin with a framework of the method of narrative analysis being used. Using the works of such thinkers as Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney, I argue that human self-understanding and therefore sense of identity is narrati...
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| description | In seeking a path to mediating feminist and anti-feminist narratives, one must begin with a framework of the method of narrative analysis being used. Using the works of such thinkers as Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney, I argue that human self-understanding and therefore sense of identity is narrative dependent. While this idea has its critics, in the framework of the central question of this essay narrative theory is a particularly productive tool. The story that I tell that gives me identity is not only a story about the surface. It is embedded in my being. I do not simply have a story, I am a story and create my world through that story. Narrative is a part of the ontological structure of being human and the ontic experience of being in the world. One narrates one’s life not in the sense of a movie voiceover, but rather as a reflective and reflexive understanding of oneself. Kearney’s work in Anatheism is particularly useful for this discussion. While Kearney’s interest is in the dialectical move from theism to atheism to a synthesis that is an atheist-informed theism, one can see the same trajectory at work in feminism and anti-feminism. If one begins with patriarchy and moves to feminism, the next step becomes anti-feminism informed by feminism. However, there is still room for an additional dialectical move, to regain a feminism that invites in its detractors and reshapes the collective narratives that impact how we interact with each other in community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ee12800c4c841519b9fbc408cebb5772022-12-21T23:36:55ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442018-05-019516010.3390/rel9050160rel9050160Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist RhetoricVerna Marina Ehret0Mercyhurst University, 501 E. 38th St., Erie, PA 16546, USAIn seeking a path to mediating feminist and anti-feminist narratives, one must begin with a framework of the method of narrative analysis being used. Using the works of such thinkers as Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney, I argue that human self-understanding and therefore sense of identity is narrative dependent. While this idea has its critics, in the framework of the central question of this essay narrative theory is a particularly productive tool. The story that I tell that gives me identity is not only a story about the surface. It is embedded in my being. I do not simply have a story, I am a story and create my world through that story. Narrative is a part of the ontological structure of being human and the ontic experience of being in the world. One narrates one’s life not in the sense of a movie voiceover, but rather as a reflective and reflexive understanding of oneself. Kearney’s work in Anatheism is particularly useful for this discussion. While Kearney’s interest is in the dialectical move from theism to atheism to a synthesis that is an atheist-informed theism, one can see the same trajectory at work in feminism and anti-feminism. If one begins with patriarchy and moves to feminism, the next step becomes anti-feminism informed by feminism. However, there is still room for an additional dialectical move, to regain a feminism that invites in its detractors and reshapes the collective narratives that impact how we interact with each other in community.http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/5/160transcontextual narrativeperformative narrativereconciliation |
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| title | Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric |
| title_full | Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric |
| title_short | Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric |
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