{"title":"Narrative Trees: Arboreal Storytelling and What It Means for Reading","authors":"S. Nitzke","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2023.a903845","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interest in \"new\" tree narratives is rising, both in science and beyond. This calls into question what \"story\" and \"narrative\" mean in different contexts, whose story is told by whom, and how these stories are related to their material base. By comparing how dendrochronologist Valerie Trouet's Tree Story (2020) and anthropologist Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think (2013) relate to trees and storytelling respectively, this paper aims to explore the theoretical prerequisites for \"the stories trees tell\" and the ways in which trees are empowered and instrumentalized by narrative means to tell (not only) their own story.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"206 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.a903845","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Interest in "new" tree narratives is rising, both in science and beyond. This calls into question what "story" and "narrative" mean in different contexts, whose story is told by whom, and how these stories are related to their material base. By comparing how dendrochronologist Valerie Trouet's Tree Story (2020) and anthropologist Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think (2013) relate to trees and storytelling respectively, this paper aims to explore the theoretical prerequisites for "the stories trees tell" and the ways in which trees are empowered and instrumentalized by narrative means to tell (not only) their own story.
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Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.
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