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Andrea Levy‘s Small Island: Multiple Co-narrators in a Shared Discursive Context
Andrea Levy‘s Small Island: Multiple Co-narrators in a Shared Discursive Context

Author(s): Daniela Vasiloiu
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Philology, Drama
Published by: MUZEUL ETNOGRAFIC AL TRANSILVANIEI
Keywords: co-narration; story and discourse; co-telling/- constructing; intersubjective communication; narrative problem

Summary/Abstract: Various human science disciplines have employed ‗co-narration‘ as an empowering mode that enables one to explore group behaviour and dynamics, social psychology and identity, or as a mechanism of sense-making. In brief, co-narration can be defined as a collaborative, conversational narrative mode, which provides multiple storytellers with an opportunity to join the discourse level (in socio-communicative context) with a view to constructing a story together. Taking an interdisciplinary (socio-communicative and cognitive) approach to narrative, the present enquiry seeks to observe how the concepts of ‗co-narration‘ may provide new insights into the fictional story and discourse.With this end in view I propose Andrea Levy‘s Small Island (2004) as a case study meant to explore how the several narrators activating collaboratively on the discourse level contribute to the intersubjective (and conversational) achievement of narrative. I posit that the four conarrators contribute to the discourse, each in their own right, through the thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs—in short, their entire ideological makeup and positioning. As a result, narrative works within discursive plurality but as a collective communicative project rather than as a solipsistic enterprise.

  • Issue Year: 16/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-136
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English