Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric

Transcontextual Narratives of Inclusion: Mediating Feminist and Anti-Feminist Rhetoric

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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 opi all your dreams in vending machines 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 neutral checkered phone case 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.