Unreliable narrators: witness accounts and the institutionalization of European history

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Abstract

"Narrative tolerance" has encouraged an historiographic preference for witness accounts within European cultural institutions. Often, however, narrative authority continues to work beneath a blandly affirmative surface. Questions of reliability aside, is a witness-based history even able to fulfil the necessary task of narrating Europe's political identity?
Original languageEnglish
JournalEurozine
Publication statusPublished - 24 Nov 2011

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