أبوليوس
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 242-255
2023-08-31
Storytelling As A Defamiliarizing Technique In Hopkinson's Midnight Robber And Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon
Authors : Boukemoum Amal . Maoui Hocine .
Abstract
One of the key features of Afro-daisporic women’s speculative fiction is its focus on the storytelling techniques adopted from the oral tradition. The present paper examines Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber ( 2000) and Okorafor ’s Lagoon( 2014) and their endeavour to merge stylistics of defamilarization with the traditional African and Caribbean Folklore and mythology in which the effect of estrangement occurs through the use of storytelling. Relying on Viktor Shklovsky’s and Darko Suvin’s theories, this study focuses on a sum of narrative techniques that these Afro-diasporic women writers inject in their works to unfold a tale of folkloric science fiction. Hence, defamiliarization is very significant for reading such novels inasmuch as it demonstrates how black female authors of speculative narrative, particularly science fiction, blur the boundaries between the oral tradition and the written text. Equally, it is paramount to look more closely at how the authors employ and utilize those folkloric African aspects in their own sense of aesthetic. This paper has shown that the formal tropes adopted by these writers have added a new perspective from which the western science fiction could be challenged.
Keywords
defamiliarization,speculative, science fiction,storytelling
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