<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper addresses the issue of how racialized intercultural relations can problematize the formation of narrative identity. How it can call in question the narratability of racialized subjectivity and lead to conflicting narrative identites of the same character as inferrible from narratorial discourse, vis-à-vis the way the character views itself in its intramental activity. And how all of this follows from, and is traceable through the manifestations of, racialized cognitive architecture, and thus, paradoxically, unnarratability can become the source of narrativity. The conflicting nature of racialized subjectivity and narrative identity formation will be examined, then, through a socio-cognitive lens. This study will draw on Nadine Gordimer’s apartheid-era novel, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ausp-2016-0001_ref_016_w2aab2b8c16b1b7b1ab1ac16Aa"><italic>The Conservationist</italic> (1974)</xref> as a tutor text and will be informed especially by colonial/postcolonial theory, cultural as well as cognitive narratology, cognitive cultural studies, theories of intercultural communication, and discourse analysis.</p></abstract>

The paper addresses the issue of how racialized intercultural relations can problematize the formation of narrative identity. How it can call in question the narratability of racialized subjectivity and lead to conflicting narrative identites of the same character as inferrible from narratorial discourse, vis-à-vis the way the character views itself in its intramental activity. And how all of this follows from, and is traceable through the manifestations of, racialized cognitive architecture, and thus, paradoxically, unnarratability can become the source of narrativity. The conflicting nature of racialized subjectivity and narrative identity formation will be examined, then, through a socio-cognitive lens. This study will draw on Nadine Gordimer’s apartheid-era novel, The Conservationist (1974) as a tutor text and will be informed especially by colonial/postcolonial theory, cultural as well as cognitive narratology, cognitive cultural studies, theories of intercultural communication, and discourse analysis.

Conflicting Narrative Identity Formation in Racialized Intercultural Discourse Nadine Gordimer’s <italic>The Conservationist</italic> – A Cognitive Narratological Approach

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Conflicting Narrative Identity Formation in Racialized Intercultural Discourse Nadine Gordimer’s  – A Cognitive Narratological Approach

The paper addresses the issue of how racialized intercultural relations can problematize the formation of narrative identity. How it can call in question the...

Conflicting Narrative Identity Formation in Racialized Intercultural Discourse Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist – A Cognitive Narratological Approach

Published Online: Dec 28, 2016

Page range: 7 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0001

Keywords
apartheid literature, cognitive narratology, intercultural discourse, Nadine Gordimer, narrative identity

© 2016 Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Conflicting Narrative Identity Formation in Racialized Intercultural Discourse Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist – A Cognitive Narratological Approach

Published Online: Dec 28, 2016

Page range: 7 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0001

Keywordsapartheid literature, cognitive narratology, intercultural discourse, Nadine Gordimer, narrative identity

© 2016 Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
apartheid literature, cognitive narratology, intercultural discourse, Nadine Gordimer, narrative identity