With the Tea Party being told to "tone it down" by establishment Republicans and the GOP in control of the legislative narrative, the pressure is now completely upon their shoulders.
In her essays, Jerkins is equally critical of the social structures in place to erase the black narrative and the pressures from within black communities to ensure that their daughters conform to white ideals often through physical means, like the arduous process of hair straightening.
23 Some understanding of women's disagreement with shopping voucher incentives for individual or household behaviour change, which may seem counter-intuitive, is revealed in narratives of blame, pressure and stigma.
Its successes, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist's failings, show how the severe juxtapositions of 21st-century life are still putting pressure on narrative to evolve.
But the complete absence of an alternative narrative, coupled with the pressure young people are under to make their own porn using phones, is frightening.
Not for Cianfrance, this time, the chronological leaps and loops that made "Blue Valentine" so painfully tense, or the generational span of "The Place Beyond the Pines" (2012), which could barely contain itself under the pressure of narrative ambition.
A non-manipulative plot, one that doesn't distort reality for the sake of neat narrative, exerts a beneficial pressure on the novelist, demanding that he or she consider a situation from multiple vantage points, see it more fully, and also weeds out much triviality by requiring the writer to choose situations that can sustain such considered analysis.
Which is why Henry James is such a master, because the not-said is always pressing against the surface of the prose, and we can feel it in our skin, we can feel it in our bodies; it is physical, a physical pressure in narrative".
However, my subsequent research suggests that such manipulation results from a broader selection pressure which narrative effectively alleviates: information acquisition.
