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Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
South Mediterranean University
WHEN NOT TO TELL STORIESUnnatural narrative in applied narratology
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International Conference on Narrative 2016
o Applied narratology
o Possbile uses of ‘unnaturalnarrative’
o Example: • The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
• Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
• The Long Awaited(Abdelkader Benali)
THIS PRESENTATION
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o Three levels of narratology
1. Storytelling practices
2. Methodological reflection(poetics)
3. Theory
o Applied narratology: mediates between level 1 and 3
APPLIED NARRATOLOGY
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o Predominance of Aristotelean narrative andits ethics• Coherence
• Closure
o ‘Against narrativity’ (Strawson)• Against Artistotelean narrative
o The ‘other’ narrativetradition• Fragmented, broken
• Foregrounding its own failure to be meaningful
APPLIED NARRATOLOGY – A CRITIQUE
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o Reminds us of narrative’s inherent fictionality(Ricoeur)
o ‘Engagement with experiences that eschew emplotment and coherence, or transgress accepted norms’ (KorthalsAltes)• E.g. border experiences
USE VALUE OF THE ‘OTHER TRADITION’
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o Clear intertextualreferences
o Family of narrators
o Special gift
o Handcuffed to history
o Absurdity of complete wholes
o Impossibility of muthos(emplotment)
THREE NOVELS
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- The Tin Drum (Günter Grass, 1959)
- Midnight’sChildren (Salman Rushdie, 1981)
- The Long Awaited(Abdelkader Benali 2002)
o Applied narratologymust be more thanmerely a course in ‘thepower of storytelling’
o Offer alternativenarrative models
o Improve people’s‘narrative savviness’ (cf. ‘media savviness’)
CONCLUDING REMARKS
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Questions?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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