We've lost our collective narrative, she continues.

We live in the middle of uncertainty, in the midst of things, and so we cast our experiences into collective narratives.

They were adjusting their collective narrative to make room for coexistence with onetime enemies.

The Storytelling group considers how a collective oral narrative might work as vehicle for dealing with the past.

I become fearful of my mind's liquidity, my ability to retain my own images and feelings rather than surrendering to what is almost instantly becoming the collective narrative.

But they scrapped the idea of juxtaposing separate pieces when a collective narrative emerged.

But more stemmed from Zionist ideology, with its heroic collective national narrative that denied "cultivating the solitary self, the lyrical personal voice of the individual."

"California needs a meta-narrative, a collective narrative, that realistically faces its growth," said Kevin Starr, a historian at the University of Southern California who has written extensively about the state.

The varying perspectives form a collective narrative that piece together the events occurring over the past year of the child's life, prefaced in the first chapter.

She carries the collective narratives of the village, the tragic and the triumphant.