But it is also true that the narrative of convergence to which Mr Ma tried to appeal has lost its power.
As such, it cannot be a singular narrative, but a convergence of many voices of different genders, ethnicities, ages, and opinions coming together in a non-linear fashion.
There is no evidence for this assumption, and indeed the convergence of narratives from people with mental illness around key positive psychology themes (e.g. meaning, agency, empowerment, hope and resilience) suggests that the opposite may be true.
"Frances Ha," underneath its more or less familiar variety of New York indie-world story, is a complex construct, both in what the movie shows and in what it doesn't, in its narrative construction and in its convergence with life offscreen.
This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences.
Aspire's formation was the product of an opportune convergence of two narratives, one my own and the other, and far more important in terms of strategy and execution, is that of Brad Smith.
The gradual convergence of the two narratives is satisfying, but when, at the climax, Tomm beans an intruder with a baseball, bathos threatens.
Ultimately, what I expect to see is a convergence between long-form narratives and books.
His analysis will compel a complete re-thinking of the current dominant narrative on globalization, with its assumption of convergence to Western liberal values.
