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1. META-NARRATIVE
• Name: Sonal Baraiya
• Class: MA Sem-3
• Roll No.: 26
• Paper No.: 11- The Postcolonial Literature
• Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
2. What is Meta-narrative?
• ‘‘A Meta-narrative in critical theory
and particularly in postmodernism is
a narrative about narratives of
historical meaning, experience or
knowledge, which offers a society
legitimating through the anticipated
completion of a master idea.’’
3. Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Term brought by Jean-
Francois Lyotard in
1984.
• He claim that the
postmodern was
characterized precisely
by a mistrust of the
grand narratives that
had formed an essential
part of modernity.
4. Meta-narrative in postcolonial
literature
• Colonizers liked to tell a certain story. In this
story, Europeans were created to rule over other,
lesser people. Europeans were the designated
masters, the rulers of the earth.
• They told the story and repeated the story
• Postcolonial writers have a big problem with this
story.
• Colonization wasn’t about civilization or
enlightenment. It was about brutal economic
exploitation.
• Jargon alert
5. CHINUA ACHEBE, THINGS FALL
APART (1958)
• Okonkwo, the hero
• English District
Commissioner
• Achebe's novel ends by
pointing out just how
the colonizers tell
stories in ways that
deliberately do no
justice to the colonized
6. Life of Pi
• Two narrations
• For theist and atheist
• Story is not according to
protagonist, who
experienced but
according to writer who
wants to got profit
• How one can believe?
• How fully one can faithful
about the writing or
narration
7. Midnight’s Children
- Salman Rushdie
• Saleem –Narrator
• Don’t know about
himself
• So, how one can believe
on his narration
• People have a doubt or
skeptic on his story
