History as storying yields representational fields enabling identity-based agency

Evidence

In some languages, this fact that history is a storying is not as clear as it is in some other languages. French happens to be one I know. This alternate storying doesn’t give you an identity, if you think of identity as something intimately personal which lets you know who you are. It gives you a whole field of representation within which something like an “identity” can be represented as a basis for agency. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s tracing of counter-history/storying from Foucault’s race-struggle lectures through Spivak’s notion of historiography as fictioning. — connects to: Strategic identity functions as a field of representation enabling agency, not self-knowledge.; Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202; Identity politics must return to the past only through narrative reinvention (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #expands (0.82)
• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #corroborates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202
• Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119
• Identity politics must return to the past only through narrative reinvention #exemplifies (0.72)
• Representations are purposeful deformations operating within specific historical settings #corroborates (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 697