ABSTRACT
What is narrative? How does narrativity define our existence? What are the different ways of narrativizing Time in philosophical discourses? How do these discourses on Time connect with the constructs of History in literature? This volume on Narrative Explorations attempts to probe into these basic questions in the first two sections and moves on to explore socio-cultural discourses of life and living in the contemporary diasporic spaces in the last section of the volume. The Introduction to this volume first writes about the concepts related to Narrative and then moves on to summarize briefly the modern theories of Narrative, which is a discursive terrain of ideas in the twentieth century. It was important to discuss briefly the theories of the modern novel too, in this context, before moving on to Galen Strawson’s contention against narrativity and the counter arguments that followed soon after. Such a discussion on Narrative has been to give a comprehensive idea about the theories in the western tradition, to contextualize the themes of Time, History and Cultural Spaces explored through the essays and fiction included in the volume.
