Narrative: Identity, Temporality, and Interdisciplinarity
updated:
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
56th NeMLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions:
Monday, September 30, 2024
Scholars of postmodern philosophy have developed a notion that “narration constitutes an act of forming identity further and suggests that a human being needs a life story in order to develop fully as a person” (Meyers 2018). Postmodern literature challenges traditional narrative conventions by embracing a more fragmented, non-linear, and self-referential narrative style (Zaidi & Khurram (2020). This shift can be viewed as a revolutionary dissent against modernism's emphasis on coherence and narrative closure or evolving narrative forms to reflect changing temporal experiences.