STORYTELLING CONFRONTATIONS
STORYTELLING CONFRONTATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to analyse the manner in which each and every narrative of the past is a mental construct which allows access not to the past as it actually occurred, but to a highly biased version of it. As such, the narrative of the past confronts the listener with a selective and, thus, limited process of reconstructing and reshaping the past according to the narrator’s intentions and his/her degree and intensity of involvement in the recounted events. Ultimately, this type of narrative faces the receiver of the story with a vision of the past which is neither exclusive nor absolute. It is just a point of view directed by what the narrator makes of the past and how he conceives it. The manner in which the narrative is constructed and presented to the listener may transform the entire act of performing the past into an adequate terrain for staging extremely tense games of power or battles of confrontation between incompatible characters and their discordant interpretations and/or modes of existence.

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