NARRATION AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN SELECTED NOVELS BY J.M.COETZEE: WAITING FOR BARBARIANS AND FOE

Jihad Jaafar Waham,Wan Mazlini Othoman

doi:10.30743/ll.v3i2.1237

Abstract

Narrations become very important such that, we tend to try to make others want to fit into them to identify with us, which is why narrative is often used in the recount of events, the past, geared to justify the systems of domination and control evident in the plight of South Africans during the apartheid period. Moreover, the narrative also shelters realities against which the truth can be judged, and they also have some sense or measure of proper world order, against which moral action can be judged. As such, narration point of view can also be determined through the perspective the story is being told. Be it the first person narrative where the author or narrator refers to himself with the personal pronoun of I, me, my, myself, however, this mode of narration may also use second and third-person pronouns in addition to the first-person point. Wherefore, the second Person narrator sees the author or narrator addresses the reader directly as you, and may use the words we and us as well in the process. The third person pronouns still could be used in a novel, in addition, where the narrator or author refrains from using a first or second person and only refers to characters as he or she or it to demonstrate his narrative techniques in this process. To this effect narrative technique employed by J.M. Coetzee’s as accounted in the selected novels used for this paperwork to explore Coetzee’s capabilities of developing a true sense of self as well as communicate to others through the Narration

Highlights

According to Seifzadeh and Raju (2014) narrative is described as a series or sequences of events and the word story may be used as a synonym of narrative. Ricoeur (2010) postulates that the identity of a story is made up from the character; and on the pretext, narrative technique is a medium through which a writer uses it as a gear to present the major and minor characters of the story
The author’s choice of narrative techniques will go a long way to determine the theme of the fictional work, and this is one of the main reasons why voice and cultural appropriation are hugely linked to narrative technique
This paper is a library research whose main goals are to examine the concept of narration through Coetzee’s fictional characters in his selected novels and to analyze how he portrays narration as a means of communication in South Africans depicted in the novels

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Introduction

According to Seifzadeh and Raju (2014) narrative is described as a series or sequences of events and the word story may be used as a synonym of narrative. Ricoeur (2010) postulates that the identity of a story is made up from the character; and on the pretext, narrative technique is a medium through which a writer uses it as a gear to present the major and minor characters of the story. Ricoeur (2010) postulates that the identity of a story is made up from the character; and on the pretext, narrative technique is a medium through which a writer uses it as a gear to present the major and minor characters of the story. The author’s choice of narrative techniques will go a long way to determine the theme of the fictional work, and this is one of the main reasons why voice and cultural appropriation are hugely linked to narrative technique. There will be a good vice appropriation; otherwise, misunderstanding of categories like culture, caste, and gender might take place. Misappropriation and recognition are the result of misunderstanding and a pathetic observation of the subject and culture (Ricoeur, 2010)

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