Representing Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-Fiction

This essay is an attempt to show how certain elements, or techniques of history writing, can be used in creative non-fiction. It uses three major sources of theory. First, there is Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait’s view on “the five themes of historiography,” which are indispensable for rese...

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Main Author: Kavalieris Galvão, André
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen 2019
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-su-1697442019-08-13T04:27:33ZRepresenting Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-FictionengKavalieris Galvão, AndréStockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen2019HistoriographyNarrativeRepresentationFive C’sCanning and PostlewaitWhiteAndrews and Burke.Literary CompositionLitterär gestaltningThis essay is an attempt to show how certain elements, or techniques of history writing, can be used in creative non-fiction. It uses three major sources of theory. First, there is Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait’s view on “the five themes of historiography,” which are indispensable for researching history: time, space, archive, identity, and narrative. The essay primarily focuses on narrative, because it is connected to representations of human lives, and as such contributes to meaning- creation. Second, the essay employs Hayden White’s concept of the historian’s working process and the notions of chronicle, story, mode of emplotment, mode of argument and ideological implications. Third is the method developed by Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke of the five C’s of historical thinking: change over time, causality, context, complexity and contingency. Although these are separate theories, the essay shows how they can be complementary and help in the development of memoir writing, which is here my creative work, A Family Memoir in Essays, in particular the essays entitled “Trimdiniekis,” “Brasiliana,” and “A Sertaneja”.  Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169744application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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topic Historiography
Narrative
Representation
Five C’s
Canning and Postlewait
White
Andrews and Burke.
Literary Composition
Litterär gestaltning
spellingShingle Historiography
Narrative
Representation
Five C’s
Canning and Postlewait
White
Andrews and Burke.
Literary Composition
Litterär gestaltning
Kavalieris Galvão, André
Representing Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-Fiction
description This essay is an attempt to show how certain elements, or techniques of history writing, can be used in creative non-fiction. It uses three major sources of theory. First, there is Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait’s view on “the five themes of historiography,” which are indispensable for researching history: time, space, archive, identity, and narrative. The essay primarily focuses on narrative, because it is connected to representations of human lives, and as such contributes to meaning- creation. Second, the essay employs Hayden White’s concept of the historian’s working process and the notions of chronicle, story, mode of emplotment, mode of argument and ideological implications. Third is the method developed by Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke of the five C’s of historical thinking: change over time, causality, context, complexity and contingency. Although these are separate theories, the essay shows how they can be complementary and help in the development of memoir writing, which is here my creative work, A Family Memoir in Essays, in particular the essays entitled “Trimdiniekis,” “Brasiliana,” and “A Sertaneja”. 
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title Representing Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-Fiction
title_short Representing Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-Fiction
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