Storying Home Power and Truth

The tension between these two epigraphs frames my paper. “Home is an image for the power of stories” (Chamberlin). “Can telling a story ever be the same as telling the truth?”(Cowley). What links home, story, and truth? Can we assume that truth is singular, or that it can be reduced to mere informat...

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Published inTropes and Territories pp. 33 - 48
Main Author Brydon, Diana
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Montreal MQUP 26.10.2007
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Summary:The tension between these two epigraphs frames my paper. “Home is an image for the power of stories” (Chamberlin). “Can telling a story ever be the same as telling the truth?”(Cowley). What links home, story, and truth? Can we assume that truth is singular, or that it can be reduced to mere information only, as Jason Cowley’s comments seem to imply? Surely postcolonial literature tells us otherwise. How do power, conflict, and the search for truth meet in story, especially in postcolonial and globalizing contexts?¹ Conventional short story theory and criticism provide little help in answering such questions. In privileging
ISBN:9780773532892
0773532897
DOI:10.1515/9780773575714-005