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Title Anti-Mimetic Narratives: A Study of Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a Porcupine and Yoko Tawada’s Memories of a Polar Bear

Author(s) SABA ALAM NATIONAL

Abstract Unnatural narratology is a recently introduced concept within narrative theory. This research reads two postmodernist animal narratives, Memoirs of a Porcupine (2012) and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (2016) as anti-mimetic narratives with the theoretical lens of unnatural narratology put forth by Jan Alber. Unnatural or anti-mimetic narratives are defined as narratives which violate mimetic conventions. The purpose of this study is to assert that earlier narrative theories neglect certain possibilities of some unusual and experimental literary and fictional narratives. While discussing the conventional narrative techniques usually used in reading animal narratives, the focus of this study is to bring forth the unnatural narrative techniques used in the selected texts. It also elaborates on how the unnatural narratives extend the cognitive perceptions of the readers within the impossible storyworlds and characters of the selected texts. This study explores elements of unnatural narratology in the selected texts by discussing how the selected texts extend the parameters of natural and conventional form of narratives and by scrutinizing the unnatural dynamics in the selected novels.

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Publication Date 2021-11-10

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