The morphology of the labour party's one nation narrative: story, plot and authorship

John Gaffney; Amarjit Lahel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12027.x

The morphology of the labour party's one nation narrative: story, plot and authorship

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Abstract

By applying narrative theory to the party political texts emerging within the UK Labour Party after 2010, which make up the corpus of One Nation discourse, we can grasp the underlying significance of this ideational revision of Labour Party and leftist thought. Through an identification and analysis of the sequence of texts and their constitution as a "story" that interpolates an underlying "plot," we can see how a revision of Labour's "tale" offers to leadership a new party discourse appropriate to it, mediating-if not reconciling-the problematic duality of narrative authorship by both party and leader.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	330-341
Number of pages	12
Journal	Political Quarterly
Volume	84
Issue number	3
Early online date	18 Oct 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12027.x
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

Ed Miliband
narrative theory
blue labour
one nation
labour party

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