Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life

"This book is a gem -- an imaginative, scholarly voyage into the rich territory where the possible and the actual must live together in the stories we tell to ourselves and to each other." -- Jerome Bruner, University Professor, New York University "Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life is a delightful and perceptive book. Molly Andrews is a master of what she refers to as 'The integration of personal experience with rigorous scholarship.' Her book is full of insights." -- Mary Warnock"This is an engaging and insightful book by the internationally renowned scholar of political narratives, Molly Andrews. In this book, unlike in her previous works, she is not focusing on a particular research project but integrates her previous works into reflections on different aspects of the role of imagination in everyday life. Unlike some other scholars who see 'heroic lives' and 'everyday lives' as mutually exclusive, the power of Molly Andrews work is her ability to show how the two are interwoven in the lives and imaginations of political activists - and the rest of us - in different parts of the world." -- Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London