ABSTRACT
Grand narratives can be so entrenched in the mists of history that it is really hard to pin them down. Grand narratives are powerful narratives which are long-standing and implicit in the particular social and political structures of nation, religion and ideology, and the global positioning and politics that collect around them. Alicia explained that there were deep national grand narratives that traced themselves right back to things like the war between the Greeks and Persians in the fifth century BC, and even the story of David and Goliath, which represented the small person defeating the powerful giant. Alicia's cultural resource of postcolonial studies is in acute and perhaps unexpected opposition to his colleague Jane's cultural resource of feminism. Alicia's final thought was that there was a huge amount of sophistication in the newspaper article, which one expected from the Western media, but which suddenly became remarkably unsophisticated when it dealt with the non-West.
