Examples Of Group Defining Narratives

Group-defining Narratives When groups employ collective memory and heritage to construct their identity, they format the representations of pastness as narratives, easier to remember and far more interesting to tell or reenact than a list of raw facts devoid of a storyline. Much like the self-defining narratives discussed previously, these narratives reflect past events which the community believes are vitally important parts of their collective past which helps determine who they are in the present. When the narratives are about national identity, Fleisher and Feldman (2001) identify five key features that appear with great regularity.
What, then, can we learn from studies of narrative thinking about the problems of national identity in