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Unreliable First Person Narrators-Your Furthere Thoughts
Thaisa
Jun 02, 2011 08:30AM
Hello gentle readers.....
I'm doing a column about the unreliable, naive, 1st person narrator and can't find ANY by women and about women, except for WHY I WORK AT THE PO.
I can find a number of male narrators about men: REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE DWARF (Lagerqvist), A BLESSING ON THE MOON, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND and REMAINS OF THE DAY. Do you guys have any clues? Any thoughts about why this form isn't one usually done by women? (I have a few,but will hold out for a while, because I'm interested in what you think).
I'm doing a column about the unreliable, naive, 1st person narrator and can't find ANY by women and about women, except for WHY I WORK AT THE PO.
I can find a number of male narrators about men: REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE DWARF (Lagerqvist), A BLESSING ON THE MOON, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND and REMAINS OF THE DAY. Do you guys have any clues? Any thoughts about why this form isn't one usually done by women? (I have a few,but will hold out for a while, because I'm interested in what you think).
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Alias Grace by Attwood is an unreliable narration from a woman's voice I believe
When Rabbit Howls by Trudi Chase. Not my favorite book but the narrator had multiple personality disorder.
One of my favorite male POV's is "one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Its different than the movie and told from the perspective of The Chief. He's in an insane asylum and sometimes his hallucinations and neurosis interrupt his narration. Really good.
One of my favorite male POV's is "one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Its different than the movie and told from the perspective of The Chief. He's in an insane asylum and sometimes his hallucinations and neurosis interrupt his narration. Really good.
Joyce Carol Oates employs it frequently but I can't recall titles because I'm in the middle of a sensitive psychological project by which I hope to erase all memory of her work.
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