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- 1. META-NARRATIVE • Name: SonalBaraiya • 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 • Termbrought 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, THINGSFALL 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 - SalmanRushdie • Saleem –Narrator • Don’t know about himself • So, how one can believe on his narration • People have a doubt or skeptic on his story
- 8. Conclusion • Skepticism towardsthe totalizing nature of ‘‘metanarrative’’ or ‘‘grand narrative’’ • Language - Game
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