Unstable Narrative Voices and the Irrelevance of Fiction in The Famished Road
This paper scrutinizes the position of the narrator as one of superior knowledge as much as of great and largely ironic ignorance. In both cases the narration lays the emphasis on the necessity for Azaro to interpret the world rather than on a creative process. The device is thus realistic rather th...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_5367 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.5367 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.5367 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/5367 2021-07-21T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dszn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Unstable Narrative Voices and the Irrelevance of Fiction in The Famished Road Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Wallart, Kerry-Jane This paper scrutinizes the position of the narrator as one of superior knowledge as much as of great and largely ironic ignorance. In both cases the narration lays the emphasis on the necessity for Azaro to interpret the world rather than on a creative process. The device is thus realistic rather than magic realist but the stark contrast resulting from the choice of a first person narration provokes readerly puzzlement and I contend that it is to be solved by a foregrounding of interrogation rather than of certainty. |
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This paper scrutinizes the position of the narrator as one of superior knowledge as much as of great and largely ironic ignorance. In both cases the narration lays the emphasis on the necessity for Azaro to interpret the world rather than on a creative process. The device is thus realistic rather than magic realist but the stark contrast resulting from the choice of a first person narration provokes readerly puzzlement and I contend that it is to be solved by a foregrounding of interrogation rather than of certainty. |
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