Metanarrative

superior to the colonized. The colonized like Chinua Achebe and others started writing back to prove that their culture was not primitive or backward in any way. These writers used the language that was imposed on them to write against their rulers. Metanarrative is an integral part of post colonial criticism and theory. The colonizers told their story in the way they wanted to so that they could continue their exploitation and thus destroy the culture and traditions of the colonized.…

The Metanarrative In the film the Whale Rider, the once complimentary narratives that governed the Maori culture: Gender, Identity, and Traditions are competing against one another. The fundamental elements of these narratives have stayed unchanged; However, some characters are interpreting these liturgies to their own personal narratives, causing conflict within the Maori Culture. Synopsis of film During a time of modernization, poverty, and the decentralization of the Maori’s culture, one…

J.R. Early’s “The Tragedy of sub-Saharan Africa” lays context for a discussion about how outside contact, primarily European, adversely affected Africa after 1500. Early argues that this perceived lack of agency and African subordination to European forces is the “tragedy of sub-Saharan Africa’s history”. However, the real tragedy here is the ignorant omission of centuries of rich culture and history while patting ourselves on the back for recognizing the “tragedy” that befell the…

see the full picture. Without the Old Testament, the New Testament would be very difficult to understand as the Old Testament is an indispensable guide for understanding all of the events of the New Testament. One can better understand the metanarrative of Scripture by studying…

This hypothesis would work under the assumption that in the Bible’s metanarrative, from the moment God uttered his judgment against the serpent, the seed of the woman (the collective of those who trust God) were hoping for the seed of the woman (the man who would achieve the ultimate victory over the serpent). If the books of…

perspective. In some cases, a historian might choose concepts from two or more in order to gain insight into the past. Post-modernism is a more recent concept characterized as “witnessing the ‘the death of centres’ and displaying ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’.” It is obvious that Jenkins is a post-modernist because he is critical of grand theories and ideologies and he even attests to being a…

“The local is dead long live the global” Assess the accuracy of this statement in terms of understandings of the globalising world presented in the texts you have studied In recent times, rapid economic development and technological innovation has impelled dominant global ways of thinking. These impending forces deterritorialise the world and encourage the transfer of information and values over conventional boundaries of time and space. Consequently national boundaries decrease in…

plots, (if you can call them that), do eventually converge it is with a feeling of random inevitability, there’s no grand plan to their collision, it just happens. Even when Wallace borders on a plot he makes it feel starkly clear that there is no metanarrative. I learned the most researching this mini-paper. The article was incredibly helpful in highlighting and condensing the writing in Infinite Jest as well as articulating the feeling of the book, (and why I loved it so much). Bonevac’s…

desires and temptation finally causes their death. Odysseus has valiantly escaped due to the lesson of resisting temptation he has learnt during his trials. Odysseus has proved himself to be a hero by being extraordinary as stated in “Heroes, Metanarratives and the Paradox of Masculinity in Contemporary Western Culture”, “Because the hero exceeds in a striking way the standards required of ordinary group members, as has been said, he is a supernormal deviant, his courage, self-abnegation,…

Efficiency is a concept that is intuitively associated with business and economics, rather than philosophy. For most of philosophy's history, efficiency was largely untouched, and was largely secondary to the ahistorical, metaphysical and epistemological questions. In modern times, this has changed and the concept of efficiency has played an increasingly important role within the various contemporary philosophical traditions. This is no more apparent than in postmodernism. Although difficult to…