Een presentatie over de tragische schelm in Die Blechtrommel van Günter Grass, Midnight’s Children van Salman Rushdie, en De langverwachte van Abdelkader Benali
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
Both the 1951 and 2010 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland differ significantly from the original books. In this lecture I show that one of the most important differences is the genre of the story that is told in each of these.
An introduction for students of literature who are looking to gain a basic understanding of the origin and principles of structurlism and narratology when applied to text.
This is the theory revision I created for my A2 Media group a couple of years ago. There is some general narrative theory, Media theory Laura Mulvey etc and Racial Representation theory, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, bell hooks etc. This was based on Media and Collective Identity focusing on the representation of black culture in British Film and American Music Videos.
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.
Toward a Narrative Learning Environment. Narrative Fiction as a Model for Lea...Dr Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
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.
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
Both the 1951 and 2010 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland differ significantly from the original books. In this lecture I show that one of the most important differences is the genre of the story that is told in each of these.
An introduction for students of literature who are looking to gain a basic understanding of the origin and principles of structurlism and narratology when applied to text.
This is the theory revision I created for my A2 Media group a couple of years ago. There is some general narrative theory, Media theory Laura Mulvey etc and Racial Representation theory, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, bell hooks etc. This was based on Media and Collective Identity focusing on the representation of black culture in British Film and American Music Videos.
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.
Toward a Narrative Learning Environment. Narrative Fiction as a Model for Lea...Dr Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
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.
This series of ten lectures introduces ten texts from world history (poetry, philosophy, prose) that will help you reflect on leadership and the ethics and responsibilities that come with it.
1. Symposium 18 november 2014
ONTWORTELING. DE SCHRIJVER ALS NOMADE
Universiteit Utrecht
Slingerend tussen worteling
en ontworteling
De tragische schelm in Die Blechtrommel, Midnight’s
Children, en De langverwachte
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
(moenandar@gmail.com)
2. Ontworteling en verhaal
“Het is niet erg ontworteld te zijn, zolang je er een
verhaal van kan maken. Een verhaal is in staat de
ontworteling de baas te worden” (Abdelkader
Benali)
Maar: met wat voor soort verhaal kun je de
ontworteling de baas zijn?
3. Drie verhalen
Günter Grass, Die
Blechtrommel (1959)
Salman Rushdie,
Midnight’s Children (1981)
Abdelkader Benali, De
langverwachte (2002)
Passen in de traditie van
de schelmenroman
(picareske)
Breiden deze traditie uit
4. De schrijver als nomade
Perspectief van de nomade: van bovenaf (vgl.
Rask Knudsen, 2004)
“From the sky there are no frontiers” (Rushdie,
2002)
Maar: “The frontier is the physical proof of the
human race’s divided self, the proof that [this]
utopian sky-vision is a lie” (Rushdie)
Spanning: grenzeloze utopie vs door grenzen
bepaalde werkelijkheid
5. Perspectief van de nomade en
perspectief van de schelm
Buitenstaander/marginaal
Destabiliseert grenzen want voortdurend in
beweging
Biedt alternatief voor grote verhaal van
samenleving en haar grenzen
6. Schelmenroman
Subtraditie van de schelmverteller
Versterkt het perspectief van de schelm:
ontmaskering en destabilisering
Vaak gekoppeld aan onnatuurlijke narratie (vertelling
construeert werkelijkheid die zichzelf etaleert als
onwerkelijk)
7. DBT, MC & DLV als picaresken:
eerste zinnen
“Ik geef toe: ik ben patiënt in een psychiatrische inrichting; mijn verpleger let
nauwkeurig op mij en verliest mij nauwelijks uit het oog, want in de deur zit een
kijkgat en het oog van mijn verpleger is van dat soort bruin dat mij, de blauwogige,
niet kan doorzien.”
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
‘Ik heb een gave. Zo, nu heb ik het gezegd. Ze wachten op me, vlak voor het begin
van het nieuwe jaar, maar ik ga mijn geboorte nog even uitstellen’.
De langverwachte
8. Eerste zinnen DBT, MC & DLV
“IK”
Verklaring die verteller een status aparte geeft
9. Die Blechtrommel (1959)
picareske perspectief
Ontleden van grote verhalen
Geschikt voor een verhaal over
transitie
Maar voegt iets toe (Reddick,
1975):
Oskar is schelm en slachtoffer
Buitenstaander en verlangen erbij te
horen
Hybride genre: schelmenroman
/Bildungsroman
Bakhtin: zijn elkaars
tegenovergestelden (Bakhtin, 1986)
Hybride van de vorm weerspiegelt
hybriden van het verhaal
10. Midnight’s Children (1981)
Saleem Sinaï is als Oskar
(vgl. Merivale, 1994)
Praten zichzelf de wereld in
door macht over de plot
(muthos - Ricoeur, 1984)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Gelijktijdigheden
Toevoeging: alwetendheid
Versterkt encyclopedische
karakter
Metafictief commentaar op
muthos
11. De langverwachte (2002)
De langverwachte is als Saleem
Sinai en Oskar Matzerath
Toevoeging: verteller verwijderd
uit het verhaal
Langverwachte is pure muthos
Worteling door ontworteling
Messianistische ontertoon (al in
de eerdere romans) versterkt
Oskar Matzerath en Saleem Sinai
lossen op in geschiedenis
De Langverwachte is oplossing van
geschiedenis
12. Concluderend
Plot suggereert betekenis, tragedie ontkracht dit (vgl.
Nietzsche)
Antitraditie van onnatuurlijke narratie herinnert ons aan
fictieve karakter van alle muthos (Ricoeur, 1984)
Oskar, Saleem en Langverwachte: misvormde narrators
laten zien: narratie misvormt
Verzet tegen onderdrukking inherent aan narratie
Combinatie van schelm & Bildung (ontworteling & worteling): de
tragische schelm
Onnatuurlijke narratie (herinnert aan fictieve karakter van alle
muthos (Ricoeur, 1984))
13. Bedankt voor uw aandacht
Website: https://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com
Twitter: @SJMoenandar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-sjoerd-jeroen-moenandar/
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Genoemde secundaire literatuur:
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).
Reddick, John. The ‘Danzig Trilogy’ of Günter Grass (1975).
Rask Knudsen, Eva. The Circle and the Spiral (2004).
Ricoeur, Paul. Temps et récit 1 (1983).
Rushdie, Salman. Step Across this Line (2002).