Narrative Trees: Arboreal Storytelling and What It Means for Reading

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-05 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2023.a903845

S. Nitzke

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Abstract

Abstract:Interest in "new" tree narratives is rising, both in science and beyond. This calls into question what "story" and "narrative" mean in different contexts, whose story is told by whom, and how these stories are related to their material base. By comparing how dendrochronologist Valerie Trouet's Tree Story (2020) and anthropologist Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think (2013) relate to trees and storytelling respectively, this paper aims to explore the theoretical prerequisites for "the stories trees tell" and the ways in which trees are empowered and instrumentalized by narrative means to tell (not only) their own story.

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叙事树：树木般的故事讲述及其对阅读的意义

摘要:无论是在科学领域还是其他领域，人们对“新”树叙事的兴趣正在上升。这就引出了“故事”和“叙述”在不同语境中的含义，谁的故事是由谁讲述的，以及这些故事是如何与它们的物质基础相关联的问题。通过比较树木年表学家Valerie Trouet的《树的故事》(2020)和人类学家Eduardo Kohn的《森林如何思考》(2013)分别与树木和讲故事的关系，本文旨在探索“树木讲故事”的理论前提，以及树木通过叙事手段被赋予和工具化的方式来讲述(不仅仅是)它们自己的故事。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.