A Parrot without Feathers? Ventriloquy, Orality, and Nostalgia in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Véronique Bragard (corresponding author), Geneviève Fabry (0000-0002-8991-6634) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 454-477 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.53.3.0454 |
| OpenAlex | W2524638115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article seeks to shed new light onto the inscription of indigenous mythical tales in the contemporary postcolonial novel by way of a comparative and contrastive analysis of Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller (1987) and Pauline Melville's first novel The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997). It examines the narrators' oral tales that use ventriloquy to recuperate the voice of the other who emerges as both absent and present in the diverted language of the ventriloquist. The attempt to avert the loss of access to indigenous culture and its cosmogonies is considered here as a nostalgic gesture. Boym's distinction between restorative and transformative nostalgia allows one to underline how Vargas Llosa's and Melville's works further explore the paradox inherent in the act of inscribing non-Western oral myths within the novel, a genre associated with a written tradition
Art · Art history · Indigenous · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Orality · Representation (politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Transformative learning · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |