Narrative theorizing is not only about the professional or vocational production of “texts” but also about the practice of everyday life among those who, though least authorized to produce “theory,” create and enact theory in their works of art and representation, everyday language, and on-the-ground practices. Anthropologists often call these folks “respondents,” but they are just as often the one who initiates/calls the question. Literary and cultural theorists may see their lives as “texts” to be bracketed and deconstructed. Here we are most interested in “grounding,” as Walter Rodney would
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