@article{article_1056402, title={Peripheries of Narration and Spatial Poetics in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone}, journal={Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies}, volume={32}, pages={553–571}, year={2023}, DOI={10.26650/LITERA2022-1056402}, author={Toprak Sakız, Elif}, keywords={Multitopicality, narratology, spatial poetics, unreliable narrator, Wilkie Collins}, abstract={This study explores narratological aspects and tools that are employed in Wilkie <br />Collins’s The Moonstone within the framework of a postcolonial narratology. Postcolonial <br />narratology directs its attention to the representation of the peripheral and the <br />marginalized within the scope of narratorial investigation. There will be some <br />considerations regarding the representation of focal and voiceless characters, the <br />function of the implied author, authorial audience as well as multiple narrators or <br />representing voices. The deployment of multitopicality in The Moonstone brings forth <br />the issue of marginalization predicated on colonizer/colonized relationships. Spatial <br />poetics in the novel functions in a way in which despite the myriad of settings that <br />constitute the story, narrative discourse privileges some places while putting the <br />others into the peripheries. The concept of space in the narrative proves to be active, <br />fluid and purposeful rather than being passive, static or innocent as in the status of <br />a background setting. Alongside temporal-spatial aspects, narratological presentation <br />of the characters also plays a fundamental role in relation to power dynamics and <br />the issue of representation. In the same vein, it is manifest that not only the description <br />of space and characters but also the placement of multiple narrators and authorial <br />audience concurrently contribute to the treatment of imperial ideologies. As part of <br />the implied author’s scheme, the narrators’ act of narration is flawed and ideologically <br />loaded rather than consistent or neutral. All these narratological clues in the novel <br />attest to the idea that narration is always a discursive act.}, number={2}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}