Things Fall apart - Positioning
- Narrative voice – what judgements does the narrator make about the events
- Implied audience – what role is assigned to the reader (insider/outsider)
- Whose voices/thoughts/opinions/culture are privileged
- Whose voices/thoughts/opinions/culture are silenced
- Binary oppositions or contrasts – do they work to represent some things as good, making the opposite bad? Or do they increase the level of sophistication or complexity of the representation? (see next point)
- Level of complexity of the representation – the more complex and ambiguous, the less the reader is positioned to completely accept or reject a point of view or character
- Consequences of actions – how are the consequences represented (deserved? Tragic? Triumphant?
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