Through The Hardship of Short Fiction Narration: Challenges of Finding The Voice
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Date
2020-05-01
Authors
Yespanova, Assyl
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Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities
Abstract
The main aim of this project is to investigate the concept of the author’s voice. The
methodic includes the research of the theoretical framework of the construction of the voice
and the actual creation of the short stories used as the tool for finding the writer’s voice. The
voice in literature represents the rhetorical mixture of different literary devices such as tone,
point of view and the word choice; however, it also operates on the author’s features of the
identity. As part of the project the detailed analysis and close reading of the strong voices in
short fiction narrative such as Nabokov’s in “Sign and Symbols” and Baldwin’s in “Sonny’s
Blues” were provided. The voices in those stories represent the psychological reflections of
the authors on their experiences. Thus, the voice also derives through the interconnectedness
of the author and their attitude towards the story. Further, I tried to implement this experience
of understanding Nabokov’s use of the voice as the tool to deliver the truth of the author and
Baldwin’s distinct voice representing the connection of the past and present. Through
creating the short stories “明 (aka) meaning ‘bright’” and “…and earth kept singing” I came
to the conclusion that the voice is rather a summation of reflections of author’s identity and a
tool to speak the truth of own. Although the literary devices are essential to define the way
the story is written, the important ingredient to the way the story sounds is an author’s choice
of way on how to express this voice. The difficult experiences and identities that create the
inner truth of the author and lead them to the process of telling that particular story are the
main components that create the unique voice for a particular narrative that should sound in a
voice the writer has intended.
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Yespanova, A. (2020). Through The Hardship of Short Fiction Narration: Challenges of Finding The Voice (Capstone Project, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Retrieved from https://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4750