Sulina, Sulina/When there's water, there's no light: Narrative, Memory, and Autobiography in a Romanian Town
Sulina, Sulina/When there's water, there's no light: Narrative, Memory, and Autobiography in a Romanian Town

Summary/Abstract: People shape discourse and discourse shapes people. Narrative structures are undoubtedly among the most pervasive and powerful forms of discourse. People live their lives telling stories about themselves, about other people, about the places they live in. Since Freud, and his reflections on nachtraglichkeit, it became a commonplace assertion that our stabilizing identity narratives are ongoing reconstructions of memories. We construct the stories about ourselves continuously, on the basis of memories fabricated in the present

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