Open AccessGoing Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel
Author(s) -
Ana Cristina Băniceru
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
romanian journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-0428
pISSN - 1584-3734
DOI - 10.2478/v10319-012-0018-7
Subject(s) - orality , intertextuality , metafiction , storytelling , literature , oral tradition , oral literature , postmodernism , history , linguistics , ethnic group , narrative , aesthetics , art , sociology , philosophy , anthropology , pedagogy , literacy
My paper examines the interplay between the sophisticated postmodernist techniques of intertextuality, parody, metafiction and a return to orality or better said of pseudo-orality, a simulated-oral discourse or what the Russian Formalists called “skaz”, brought about by much postcolonial, ethnic or feminist literature.