Key elements of storywriting in "Monkey Beach". Oral tradition turned into literature

Rautmann, Sina Laura

ISBN 10: 3668480257 / ISBN 13: 9783668480254

Published by Grin Verlag, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Key elements of storywriting in "Monkey Beach". Oral tradition turned into literature
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3668480257
• ISBN 13: 9783668480254
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Institute of English Studies), language: English, abstract: Only very few people are used to storytelling for even fairy tales are written down and read out loud to children the same way over and over again without alteration. Changing perspective to first nation tribes one can easily discover the importance that oral tradition and storytelling has to these people. It existed long before literature was introduced by the settlers in the post-colonial era. While contemporary Canadian fiction and short story writing developed in the middle of the nineteen-hundredth century, Native Canadian Writing was forced to create their own distinctive style of writing. By combining storytelling with literature the new genre of storywriting was created. In this paper I will analyze the key features of storywriting and will exemplify them with quotes from the book Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson (2000). First I will present a short overview over the author and the book in general. Then I will give a brief overview about the main motifs, symbols and topics that the book deals with. In the main part of this paper I will present different quotes and show typical aspects for oral tradition that can be found within them.

About the Author

Nach ihrem Abitur studierte Sina Laura Rautmann Multimedia Arts & Webdevelopment und schloss 2011 erfolgreich ihren ersten Bachelor of Arts ab. Ihre Bachelorarbeit schrieb sie zum Thema "Genderspezifisches Spielverhalten in Browsergames". Danach sammelte sie einige Berufserfahrung in einem E-Partizipationsunternehmen als PHP-Entwicklerin. 2012 änderte sie ihren beruflichen Werdegang und fing noch einmal ein Lehramtsstudium an der Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg an. Dabei spezialisierte sie sich auf die Fachrichtungen Englisch, Sachunterricht und ev. Religion. Im Herbst 2015 absolvierte sie ihren Bachelor of Arts mit einer Abschlussarbeit zum Thema "Lernertypen". Im Herbst 2017 schloss sie ihren Master of Education ab. Für ihre Masterarbeit zum Thema "SchulbegleiterInnen - Systematisch integriert oder fünftes Rad am Wagen?" führte sie eine deutschlandweite Umfrage unter SchulbegleiterInnen durch.