About the Book: Against Storytelling
A unique collection of essays about the meaning and significance of storytelling
in our time.
At what point did we begin to say, We are all storytellers? Far from being a
timeless idea, the statement seems to go back to no further than the 1980s,
coterminous with the dawning of a new kind of epic novel, an unprecedented
supremacy for the English language, and the era of economic liberalisation. Who
was it who made storytelling synonymous with cultures outside the West? And
could it just be conceivable that much of whats most worthwhile about writing
and creativity occur on the fringes of the