A Story Is Not a Thing (but It Does Have a Life)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D X Harris (0000-0002-1138-8229, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 25-29 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.4.25 |
| OpenAlex | W2914790473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay creatively evidences the materiality of a story and its ability to migrate and evolve. It does so by critiquing the non-human limitations of binary onto-epistemologies, especially visual/discursive ones. Here stories and words have lives, bodies, and agency and as such they matter, but that matter is not material. The mattering of stories is not contingent upon human telling or hearing. Stories linger where humans disappear. An ecomaterialist reading suggests we might productively decouple storytelling (stories about us) from storied matter (stories with autonomy)
Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |