scholarly journals The Homosexual Male Gaze: Normalizing Homosexuality through the Use of Heteronormative Narrative Techniques in Film

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Lauren Rohrs
Keyword(s):  
Male Gaze ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Beauty And The Beast ◽  
Homosexual Male ◽  
Narrative Techniques

An examination of the use of Mulvey’s “male gaze” by a homosexual character in the 2017 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Explores the potential of the use of this heteronormative narrative technique in the normalization of homosexuality in film and society. 

scholarly journals Narrators and their stories

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Zorica Nestorovic
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Xix Century

The paper deals with narrative techniques in Djura Jaksic's story One night that takes the exclusive place in narrative corpus of this great poet of Serbian romanticism as well as in Serbian prose in XIX century. The narrative technique known as skaz and the procedure of his shaping in the narrative structure are specially analyzed. The interpretation of narrative mechanisms expectation - realization, which was developed in the tradition of folk narrative, underlines the symbolic function of the elements from folklore legend in formatting the narrative structure and the narrator.

scholarly journals Feminism and Postmodernism in Kuwaiti Women’s Fiction: Four Novels by Fawziyya S. al-Sālim

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Ishaq Tijani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Women's Fiction ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Narrative Techniques

Abstract This article comparatively examines the first four novels of Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Sālim (b. 1949): al-Shams madhbūḥa wa-l-layl maḥbūs (1997), al-Nuwākhidha (1998), Muzūn (2000), Ḥajar ʿalā ḥajar (2003). I argue that these novels reflect not only the stages of the author’s career as a novelist but also of the transition of Kuwaiti women’s fiction from the conventional to the postmodern narrative technique and discourse. Al-Sālim’s first and second novels typically reproduce-albeit subversively-the dominant literary discourse and employ conventional narrative techniques. On the other hand, her millennial-third and fourth-novels signal the inception of the feminist-postmodernist novel in Kuwait; in varying degrees, both texts utilise present-day, globalised linguistic vulgarism and fragmented narrative techniques to explore feminist discourses bordering on female transcendence and self-determination.

scholarly journals Fragmentation and Postmodern studies: An analysis of Mohsin Hamid’s Novel “How to get filthy rich in rising Asia”

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Uzma Munir ◽  
Qamar Sumaira Sumaira
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Postmodern Literature ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Postmodern Art ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Structural Inequalities

In this study, the fragmentation as postmodernist narrative technique in Mohsin Hamid’s novel “How to get filthy rich in rising Asia” is examined. He uses structural inequalities, grammatically incorrect sentences, phrases and dependent clauses. The term fragmentation is coined by Bell Hooks to highlight the problem of “hierarchy of oppression” within the feminist paradigm. Fragmentation is the major thematic concern of postmodern art that sets new parameters for the narrative techniques of postmodern literature. Fragmentation in the literary work involves complexity on semantic level where the various words act as signifier and signified at the same time. Therefore, this study probes the fundamentals of fragmentation in the text that reflects the radical changes in the postmodern society and focuses on the little narratives that create fragmented truth and cause anarchy, uncertainty and chaos in the world.

scholarly journals Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap Multiculturalism in Australia Now

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Hianly Muljadi
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
The Real ◽  
The People ◽  
Narrative Techniques

This study focuses on the use of narrative techniques, especially point of view, in a novel entitled The Slap written by an Australian author, Christos Tsiolkas. This novel begins with a barbeque party hosted by a couple in a suburban Melbourne. The party is attended by many of their friends, families and co-workers who come from many different ethnic backgrounds, mostly immigrants or immigrant descents in Australia. The story takes an interesting turn when a man slaps an unruly boy who is not his own. The boy’s parents become so furious and decide to report the incident to the police. The story then continues with the revelation on how the case goes. What is special about this novel is that the aftermath of the incident is written in multiple chapters, narrated by a different character for each chapter. Readers will be able to see what happen after the incident through the eyes of each character who not only talk about the incident but inform the readers also about their life and the people around them. This is very interesting considering all the characters come from different ethnics; Greek, Indian, Jew, and British Australian. Christos Tsiolkas claimed that he wanted to show the real Australia which is not often represented in other novels through this novel and he has chosen to use the 3rd person limited point of view as a means to deliver his message. At the end of the research it can be concluded that there is a shift in position between the white Australians and immigrants or immigrant descent nowadays in terms of superiority and inferiority.   Keywords: narrative technique, point of view, multiculturalism, immigrant, white Australians.

Narrative technique in Light in August

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Maria Lúcia Barbosa de Vasconcellos
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Light In August ◽  
The American South ◽  
Narrative Techniques

I am going to start with a quotation by Edmond L. Volpe in his studies about Faulkner: "Faulkner's greatness as an artist is due to a great extent, to his ability to deal with the specific and the universal simultaneously. Everything that particularizes the American South and its inhabitants is rendered realistically in his writing. But he is far more than a regional writer, and his achievement is due, in large measure, to his narrative structure, narrative techniques, and his style."

THE KNACK OF NARRATION: A POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUE IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S WEEP NOT, CHILD

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Mohammed YASSIN MOHD ABA SHAR’AR ◽  
Chamaiporn BUDDHARAT
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
European Colonialism

The downfall of the European colonialism in the African and Asian colonies was not the end of the colonial hegemony, but the beginning of indirect imperial policies. In a unique narrative style, Ngugi has creatively fictionalized his anti-colonial stand through creating characters with Kenyan names to voice his resistance to colonization. The methodology of this study is descriptive analysis. The paper analyzes critically Ngugi’s novel Weep Not, Child and shows how he implemented different narrative techniques (e.g. free indirect narration, freewheeling narrative technique, and author surrogate) to depict the atrocities and aftermath of colonization. It explicates how Ngugi uses narration to liberate gradually the minds of his people and their land from the settlers through the decolonial styles of peaceful struggle and focus on education. Specifically, the paper elaborates how Ngugi, like many other post-colonial writers, resisted and challenged the neo-imperial forms over the previous colonies in the neo-colonial era. Ngugi’s novel sheds light on the impacts of colonialism which affected negatively not only Kenya, but also all the colonized nations.

scholarly journals Disney Portrayal of Gender Roles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast and Frozen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Inesia Linando
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Beauty And The Beast ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Snow White ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Many parents consider giving fairytales books and films with the “happily ever after” theme with princesses and princes charming characters to their little ones. For parents, fairytale means Disney’s products. Disney, as one of the largest media companies in the world has been using traditional approach for producing their films. However, Disney changed their approach and recently has been using progressive approach in the contemporary setting. Disney also sets an example to transgress and shape ways of thinking in the society worldwide. Using Mulvey’s theory about male gaze and three Disney’s films which are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Frozen (2013), this paper will discuss the change of view from damsels in distress to heroines. This analysis aims to identify the gender roles displayed in the Disney’s characters and how within the films, Disney has changed in few decades.

scholarly journals The Study of Interior Monologue in Houshang Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab, Virginia Woolf’s Two Selected Novels, Mrs. Dalloway and to the Lighthouse; A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 761-767
Author(s):  
Narges Raoufzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh ◽  
Shahrzad Mohammad Hosein
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Modern Technique ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Techniques

This paper aims to compare interior monologue which is a modern technique in three selected novels.  Comparing Houshang Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Golshiri has made use of both direct and indirect interior monologues in his master piece, Shazdeh Ehtejab. An early example in Persian fiction which has a great emphasis on form and techniques of narrating the story. The present study will examine, in detail the creation of interior monologue through the minds of characters with reference to Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab and Virginia Woolf’s two selected novels, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Focusing on the narrative techniques used by these two modernist writers and deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The aim of this study is to show how Golshiri and Woolf try to move deeply into the character’s consciousness. They use the narrative technique, Interior Monologue, in their novels that deals with the flow of ideas, thoughts, feelings, and sensation.

Witnessing gendered testimony: Reader ethics in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942092033
Author(s):  
Jenn Olive
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Bapsi Sidhwa ◽  
Postcolonial Identity ◽  
Reader Engagement ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Over Time

Much of Cracking India’s scholarship focuses on how the text provides a representation of gendered trauma during Partition. These analyses, however, overlook the reader’s role, which minimizes literary works to analyzable objects rather than interactive opportunities. Following the work of postcolonial trauma scholars such as Steph Craps, Abigail Ward, and Jay Rajiva, I argue that postcolonial trauma narratives are crucial spaces of testimony in which the ongoing traumatic effects of colonialism intersect with reader engagement. Using Dori Laub’s trauma interview model, I examine how Bapsi Sidhwa uses the narrative techniques of perspective, time, and presence in Cracking India to implicate the reader as a witness in gendered postcolonial trauma affecting women. In pairing the examination of how narrative technique engages the reader as a witness with current scholarship on gender in Sidhwa’s novel, I show how such consideration of the reader speaks to how gendered violence contributes to postcolonial identity formation over time.

Frankenstein’s Singular Events: Inductive Reasoning, Narrative Technique, and Generic Classification

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique R. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Central Section ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Moral Questions

Abstract In this essay, I suggest that the central section of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – the creature’s description of his first experiences – echoes Hume’s and Bacon’s discussions of inductive reasoning. Because the creature must learn the causes of phenomena the reader takes for granted, his story defamiliarizes both the reader’s world and the process of induction itself. The creature’s tale thus functions as a travel narrative, and produces the cognitive estrangement associated with science fiction. I then examine the prominence of inductive reasoning in the novel as a whole, and discuss Victor’s and the creature’s singular situations as resistant to inductive understanding. I argue that Shelley uses various narrative techniques (such as embedded narratives and character doubling) to invite and frustrate readers’ attempts to use induction to solve the novel’s central moral questions. The reader’s inability to form coherent inductive patterns in part accounts for the novel’s radical ambiguity. Finally, I suggest some consequences for Frankenstein’s relation to the gothic: the novel departs from gothic conventions in its unusual use of the doppelgänger, and its rhetorical goals in invoking induction.

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