Narrating the Past

Download or read book Narrating the Past written by Nandita Batra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated.