Narrative time in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Jubilee" and Annie Ernaux's "Stories": A comparative study for creative writing pedagogy
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Narrative time plays an important role in shaping how literary experiences are presented, remembered, and interpreted. This study examines the narrative time in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Jubilee” and Annie Ernaux’s “Stories” through Gérard Genette’s narratological framework of order, duration, and frequency. The study employs a descriptive qualitative approach with a comparative narratological method. Data were collected through close reading and documentary analysis of the two short stories and were coded according to temporal order, duration, frequency, and supporting aspects of focalization. The findings show that both stories employ retrospective narration and temporal shifts to reconstruct past experiences, while their temporal strategies produce different narrative emphases. “Jubilee” uses analepsis, scene, summary, and iterative narration to connect personal memories with family relationships, cultural inheritance, and diasporic experience. “Stories” similarly combines retrospective narration, scene, summary, selective temporal omission, and iterative narration to foreground childhood memory, self-reflection, and the relationship between lived experience and storytelling. The study demonstrates that narrative time functions not only as a structural device but also as a means of constructing meaning and offers practical implications for teaching creative writing through conscious manipulation of narrative time.
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