Editing Storytelling (section)

== As a political praxis ==
Some approaches treat narratives as politically motivated stories, stories empowering certain groups and stories giving people agency. Instead of just searching for the main point of the narrative, the political function is demanded through asking, "Whose interest does a personal narrative serve"?<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal|last1=Langellier|first1=Kristen|title=Personal Narratives: Perspectives on Theory and Research|journal=Text and Performance Quarterly|date=1989|page=266}}</ref> This approach mainly looks at the power, authority, knowledge, ideology and identity; "whether it legitimates and dominates or resists and empowers".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> All personal narratives are seen as ideological because they evolve from a structure of power relations and simultaneously produce, maintain and reproduce that power structure".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Langellier|first1=Kristen|title=Personal Narratives: Perspectives on Theory and Research|journal=Text and Performance Quarterly|date=1989|page=267}}</ref>

Political theorist, [[Hannah Arendt]] argues that storytelling transforms private meaning to public meaning.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Michael|title=The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity|date=March 1, 2002|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|isbn=978-87-7289-737-0|page=36}}</ref> Regardless of the gender of the narrator and what story they are sharing, the performance of the narrative and the audience listening to it is where the power lies.