Narratives of resistance and resisting narrative in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Abdelkader Benali’s The Long Awaited
This presentation, an exercise in applied narratology, describes what a narrative learning environment may look like, based on our own experience as professors at institutes for tertiary education in the Netherlands and Tunisia. We will discuss how we have attempted to construct narrative learning environments based on the idea that ideally, education is, like narrative fiction, a ‘giant laboratory’ (Ricoeur 1990) where experiments with estimations and evaluations, with judgments of approval and condemnation can take place. Both are served by a certain degree of autonomy that allows for such experimentation. And both are, in the best cases, strongly polyphonic, rather than dominated by one single story.
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Narrative environments are spaces that foster storytelling activities. In this presentation, we will discuss turning learning environments into such spaces, where stories serve to instigate, facilitate and evaluate the learning process. We will look to narrative fiction as a vast storehouse of stories and metaphors that may be useful in such a narrative learning environment and we will discuss how literature, as an autonomous space for experiments with estimations and evaluations, with judgments of approval and condemnation, may serve as a powerful metaphor for education.
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1. Ethics of Storytelling Conference
University of Turku
A Family of Tragic Picaroons
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2. TYPOLOGY OF GENRES FOR LIFE STORIES
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Based on Bakhtin 1986,
adapted from Moenandar
& Huisman 2015
3. o Günter Grass, Die
Blechtrommel (1959)
o Salman Rushdie,
Midnight’s Children
(1981)
o Abdelkader Benali, De
langverwachte [The Long
awaited] (2002)
• Fit the tradition of the
picaresque
• Add something to this
tradition
NARRATIVES OF TRANSITION
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4. “Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never
lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the
shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.“
Die Blechtrommel
“I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no
getting away from the date. I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on
August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No,
it’s important to be more… On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact.”
Midnight’s Children
“I have a special gift. So, now I’ve said it. They’re waiting for me, just before the
start of the new year, but I am going to postpone my birth for a while.”
De langverwachte
FIRST SENTENCES
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5. o Picaresque perspective
• Deconstructs grand narratives
• Fitting for a story about
transition
o But adds something
(Reddick, 1975):
• Oskar is picaroon and victim
• Outsider and a desire to
belong
o Hybride genre:
picaresque/Bildungsroman
THE TIN DRUM
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6. o Saleem Sinaï is like Oskar
(cf. Merivale, 1994)
o Talk themselves into the
world through power
over plot (muthos -
Ricoeur, 1984)
o Addition: Omniscience
• Strengthens encyclopedic
character
• Metafictional comment on
muthos
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
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7. o The Long Awaited is like
Saleem Sinai and Oskar
Matzerath
o Addition: removing the
narrator from the story
o Long Awaited is pure muthos
o Suffering relegated to main
character
o Messianist overtones become
stronger
o Oskar Matzerath and Saleem
Sinai dissolve in history
o The Long Awaited solves history
THE LONG AWAITED
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8. o Narrative resistance, resisting narrative
• Oscillating between picaresque outsiderness
and need for belonging
• Foregrounding narrative process and its
oppressive nature through unnatural narrative
CONCLUSION
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9. Questions?
Works cited:
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (1986).
• Merivale, Patricia. “Saleem Fathered by Oskar. Intertextual Strategies in
Midnight’s Children and The Tin Drum” (1994).
• Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen & Huisman, Krina. “Storytelling as a Tool for
Student Career Counselling” (2015).
• Reddick, John. The ‘Danzig Trilogy’ of Günter Grass (1975).
• Ricoeur, Paul. Temps et récit 1 (1983).
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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