Narrativize

[…] for to narrate, to narrativize, in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power.

Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult […]

Witnesses may misconstrue and misrecount what they see for a variety of reasons other than the inherent unreliability of sensory perception and the inevitable bias of retrospective narrativizing — and Hannah's defense raised several further hypotheses to explain the incriminating testimony presented at her trial.

To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human.