![]() By juxtaposingĪnd comparing the emotional and vivid testimonial stories of the victims with Murder of three black adolescents by three white policemen. For Hersey, the motel incident clearly indicates a racially-motivated To solve the mysterious murder at an Algiers motel during the Detroit Riots ofġ967. The Algiers Motel Incident is a full recycling of other stories in an attempt Not a vested partisan…ambiguous in his own proportions”- “a comic hero” Mailer argues that the eccentric event requires a narrator as the ex-centricįigure, and stages in his storytelling “an eyewitness who is a participant but Pentagon March, the event “so odd and unprecedented” with “monumentalĭisproportions,” defies any brilliant and clear-cut storification, the process ofĬonstructing a story out of real events (68). Systematic clarifications of the march are in fact a distortion because the He believes that theĬompetitors’ story-schemata would unvaryingly fail, for their ideologicalĪpparatuses are too precise and rigid in estimation and interpretation. Historical significance attached to it, for Mailer, the Pentagon March, beingĪmorphous and ambiguous, resists being neatly storied. ![]() Though political parties rush to render a meaningful story with White House, it was simply a story of “irresponsible acts of violence and “Theīlack Militants,” following their own imperatives, pursued a different story toĮxpress “their reluctance to use their bodies in a White War” (120). Revolutionary story with “its political esthetic from Cuba” in mind (109). “brickwork-logic-of-the-next-step” (102). “The Old Left,” in his estimation, would read into the event its own script of Totalize the experience of the march based on predetermined political agendas. Washington, D.C., Mailer tries to disqualify other competing stories that In recounting the experience of the Pentagon March in October 1967 in Neighboring stories” to support one’s perception of the reality. Only “storytelling against other stories” but also refers to “storytelling with “complementary”) implies, counter-storytelling does not necessarily mean “counter-storytelling.” As the prefix “counter-“ (“contrary” and Version of the reality-a practice which I would like to conceptualize as ![]() Interpret, and examine competing stories in order to argue for their own Varied modes of intertextual activity in which the storytellers analyze, Another distinctive “out-referential” practice of news stories includes
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