On the danger of seeing a story as more than a story

We often talk about how stories change the world, but we should also see how the world of identity politics affects the way stories are being circulated, read and reviewed.

Writer Elif Shafak in her TED talk The Politics of Fiction (embedded below). Shafak was prosecuted for her novel about a family’s women set against the Turkish-Armenian conflict. A nice compliment to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk The Danger of a Single Story.