DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Telling Stories, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Neoliberalism
13 Nov 2017
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Stories are reflective of culture, produces culture (way of making culture), police culture (governing function e. g. fable), and can be used to criticize culture (can put it into question, while reinforcing it). Narrative: a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious; book, literary work, etc. containing such story; the art, technique or process of narrating. There are various narrative processes, we often end up telling someone else"s story. The truth about stories is that that"s all we are thomas king, the truth about stories. Master narrative is produced by people in power as they have the ability to make a story, maintains the status quo. Mad characters are usually uni-dimensional flattened out character. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another persons, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
