Afro-Asian Narratives

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At the end of this
presentation, you should be
able to identify the different
narrative forms common in
African and Asian literature.
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 The world is a book and those
who do not travel read
only one page.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
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Narrative is some kind of retelling,
often in words, of something that
happened.

The narrative is not the story itself,

but rather the telling of the story.

We have different kinds of narratives

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Common Forms of Afro-Asian Narratives

Folk tales refer to narratives that focus on the legends, myths, and
traditional tales of a particular culture.

Folk tales are usually of a primitive nature, thus they include supernatural
creatures and mythical beings.

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Myths, categorized under folk tales, are legendary or traditional stories that
usually concern an event, or a hero, with or without using factual or real
explanations, particularly one concerning with demigods or deities, and
describes some rites, practices and natural phenomenon.
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Legends narrate the origins of a particular place or object.

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 Epic comes from the
Ancient Greek adjective
epikos meaning poetic
story.

An epic is a long narrative

poem, which is usually
related to heroic deeds of
a person of an unusual
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bravery.
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Novels are narratives that
usually consist of 40,000 or
more words, ranging from
young adult to science
fiction, and are the lengthiest
in prose narratives.
Setting, character, and
conflict are widely explored
in a novel because of its
sufficient estimate in length.
Though the rise of the novel
originated in Europe, the first
considered actual novel was
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Short stories are narratives that usually consist of 3,500 to 7,500 words and
can be read under one sitting.
It is considered as the most common form of narrative writing and is used to
describe a single event, a single episode, or a tale of one particular
character.

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