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Narration, the telling of stories, is and has always been a universal, world-spanning phenomenon, “a panglobal fact of culture”. Instead of describing a “global turn” of narration, this chapter focuses on the pronounced interest in narration within a multitude of academic disciplines since the 1990s, which understand narration as an anthropologically determined and global form of perceiving and knowing the world and the self. It further goes into the resulting approaches for the analysis of narration within the field of cultural narratology, and, finally, considers transcultural narratology, which examines the question of how meaning is narratively produced and constructed in different cultures and which values are attached to it.
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Hayden White, The value of narrativity in the representation of reality, in: W. J. Thomas Mitchell (ed.), On Narrative, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago University Press, 1981, p. 1.
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Ansgar Nünning/Vera Nünning (eds.), Erzähltheorie transgenerisch, intermedial, interdisziplinär, Trier: WVT, 2002.
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Ansgar Nünning, Wie Erzählungen Kultur erzeugen. Prämissen, Konzepte und Perspektiven für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Narratologie, op. cit., p. 28.
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Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1978.
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Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London/New York: Verso, 1983.
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Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 1994.
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Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, New York: Basic Books, 1973.
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Cf. Anke Bartels/Dirk Wiemann, Global Fragments. An Introduction, in: Anke Bartels/Dirk Wiemann (eds.), Global Fragments. (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007, p. xi.
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Hanne Birk, AlterNative Memories. Kulturspezifische Inszenierungen von Erinnerung in zeitgenössischen Romanen indigener Autor/inn/en Australiens, Kanadas und Aotearoas/Neuseelands, Trier: WVT, 2008, p. 10.
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Ruth Page/Bronwen Thomas, Introduction, in: Ruth Page/Bronwen Thomas (eds.), New Narratives. Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age, Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2011, pp. 12–13.
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Ibid., p. 7.
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Roy Sommer, Contextualism Revisited. A Survey (and Defence) of Postcolonial and Intercultural Narratologies, op. cit., p. 77.
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Sabine Wienker-Piepho/Klaus Roth, Zum Inhalt, in: Sabine Wienker-Piepho/Klaus Roth (eds.), Erzählen zwischen den Kulturen, Münster: Waxmann, 2004, p. 12.
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Schmidt-Haberkamp, B. (2019). Narration. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90382-8_16
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