People arrive at an understanding of themselves and the world through narratives — narratives purveyed by schoolteachers, newscasters, "authorities," and all the other authors of our common sense.
Many transwomen have complained that, in their work, Blanchard and Bailey have ignored their life narratives, narratives that these women say fly in the face of the simple two-type model of MTF transsexualism that sees eroticism as a fundamental motivation for MTF sex reassignment.
We don't win the narrative and narrative beats technical.
The book threatens to dissolve into a solipsistic graduate thesis, a narrative about narratives.
But that's really only one narrative: the narrative of war vs. uncertainty about it.
In our different ways we all challenged the dominant narrative, the narrative of the victors.
"There is a tension between a national narrative and targeted narratives," he said.
For him, both narrative and non-narrative dance spring from the same source, the music.
You suggest that there are two competing narratives: the "narrative of war" and a "counternarrative... of uncertainty and caution".
She knows how to write a trauma narrative, you could say, but not a survival narrative, a narrative that comes from actually facing what we might call extinction.
