Postmodern Narrative Techniques in Michael Ondaatjee’s Coming Through Slaughter and In a Skin of a Lion- An Exploration.

Abstract

The term ‘Narrative’ is taken from the Latin word narrare which suggests ‘to recount’ and is said to the adjective gnarus which means knowing or skilled. Ultimately, it is derived from the proto Indo-European root word ‘gno’ meaning to know. The word story could also be used as a synonymous to narrative. Rimmon Kenan in his Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, rightly says that,