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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction The Power of Stories
Reclaiming Stories of Experience as Stories
The Opposition Between Story and Truth
Marginalized Experience as Story
The Re-emergence and the Power of Storytelling
Part I Hannah Arendt and the Revaluing of Storytelling
Chapter 1 Political Narration after the Poststructuralist Critique
Narration Deconstructed
The Rhetorical Production of “Narrative Content”
White’s Conclusions and Remaining Questions
Revaluing Narrative
A Note on Terms
The Affinity Between Life and Narrative
Arendt and White
Historical Narration as Story “Making”
The “Materials” of Storytelling
The “Work” of Storytelling
The Truth-Value of Creatively Made Stories
Storytelling and Understanding
Ricoeur: The Interplay of Knowledge and Understanding
Gadamer: Understanding as Reconciliation with Reality
The Specific Kind of Understanding Achieved through Storytelling
The Productive Role of Storytelling
Chapter 2 The Public Role of Storytelling
The Problem of Responsible Moral Judgment
Arendt and the Practice of Responsible Judgment
The Origins of Totalitarianism as Responsible Judgment
Ideological and Critical Thinking
Ideological Thinking and Loneliness
“The Tyranny of Logicality”
Experience, Community, and Critical Thinking
Storytelling and Participatory Politics
“Objectivity” versus Community-Situated Knowledge
A Community of Storytellers
Chapter 3 Toward a Critical Theory of Stories
Storytelling and Kant’s Principles of Judgment
Kant’s Theory of Judgment
Reflective Judgment as Political Judgment
Reflective Judgment and Storytelling
The Limits of Kant’s Principles
Pronouncing Judgment or Telling a Story?
Imagination or Actual Dialogue?
Painless Visiting or Disorienting Travel?
What happens... when a scholar changes perspectives within scholarly narration without changing social position?
Individual or Community Prejudices?
Superceding or Confronting Differences?
Toward Communicable Stories
Difference-Sensitive “Visiting”
Testing Community-Wide Prejudices
Confronting the Social Production of Prejudices
Communicability in Light of Differences
Part II. Counter-Narratives and Cross-Border Politics
Chapter 4. The Problem of Experience
The Critique of Experience
Joan Scott’s Strong Critique of Experience
Scott’s Critique of Histories of Experience
Beyond the Critique of Experience
[W]hy deny the importance of writing and its possible revolutionary role in the exploration, revelation, and diffusion of our real and potential identity?
Delany: Narrating the Tension Between Experience and Language
Zinn: Reconstructing a Heritage
Roy: Debunking “Expert” Knowledge
Reclaiming Experience
Chapter 5. Storytelling and Global Politics
Storytelling and Transnational Feminism
Transnational Feminist Frameworks
Transnational Feminist Goals
Situating Storytelling
Narration and Colonization
Narrative “Actors”
Narrative “Action”
Narrative “Events”
Reclaiming Narration: Anzaldúa and Barrios de Chungara
Renarrating “Identity”
Identities as “Character-Units”
Renarrating “Agency”
Renarrating “Action”
Renarrating “Events”
Conclusions: Narration and Feminist Democratic Politics
Chapter 6. Stories and Standpoint Theory: Toward a More Responsible and Defensible Thinking from Others' Lives
Story Reading and Standpoint Theory
Thinking from Others’ Lives: The Need for Stories
A Hermeneutics for Thinking from Others’ Lives
“Thinking from Others’ Stories”: The Problem of Justification
“Less False” as the Goal of Knowledge
Beyond “Less False”
“Justice” as the Goal of Knowledge
Beyond “Justice”
Standards Adequate to the Value of Stories
The Value of the Marginalized Standpoint
Enlarged Thought as a Measure of Standpoint Thinking’s Value
Enlarged Thought and Harding’s Third World Story of Science
Standpoint Theory and Enlarged Thought
Notes
References
Index