Storylines
How Words Shape Our World
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A brilliant and timely exploration of the power of stories and songsfrom both the distant past and todays newscounters despair and disillusionment with hope and possibility. Stories are our first and ...
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A brilliant and timely exploration of the power of stories and songsfrom both the distant past and todays newscounters despair and disillusionment with hope and possibility. Stories are our first and last survival strategy. For tens of thousands of years, they have told humanity what we know and what we dont know, what to wonder about and what to watch out for. We draw comfort from our great myths, and from the storytelling of our contemporaries (including members of our families). Storytelling holds us together. And sometimes it keeps us apart. From the stories we tell children, to literary works, to pop music, stories take many forms and give shape and substance to things we believe, perpetuating ideals and identities and provoke controversy and conflict. They include explanations of the origin and purpose of things, of causes and effects and sequences of events, and of our relationships to the forces that surround us. They also shape the institutions we establish, the ways in which we constitute ourselves as communities, and the covenants we enter into with secular as well as spiritual powers. Stories that celebrate growth and development and civilized progress can be a hazard when we use them to destroy Indigenous homelands and heritages and the environment. Stories can also provide a form of resistance to the overpowering realities of the everyday, empowering our imaginations to create a sense of possibility. It is within storytelling, and by understanding how stories work, that we can find a way to bring sympathy and judgment back into the centre of our conversations about what we canand what we mustdo. Stories and songs, ours and those of others, can help us. They can save us.
Detaljer
Forlag
Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN
9781771623513
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
208
Udgivelsesdato
23-11-2023
Varenr.
3367773
EAN nr.
9781771623513
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
216
Bredde (mm)
140
Længde (mm)
15
Vægt (g)
278