Story Matrices
Description
The culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping.
The heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work. How do they combine within the novel? Genre writing plays a critical role in demonstrating how this transmission functions.
Science fiction and fantasy illustrate this through shared traditions and understanding, colonialism, diasporic experiences, own voices, ethics, selective forgetting and silencing. They illuminate ways in which speculative fiction is important for cultural transmission.
This study uses cultural encoding and baggage within speculative fiction to decode critical elements of modern English-language culture.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgement
- Preface
- Introduction
- Introducing Cultural Brickwork and Bricks
- In Order to Tell Stories, We Need Worlds
- More about Cultural Brickwork
- Story Space and its Relationship to Brickwork Constructs
- Describing Unique Culture and Shared Culture
- Examining Core Components of a Novel
- Coding Acceptable Behaviour into Story
- Cultural Resonance and Readers
- The Complex Role of the Novel Itself
- The Culture Writers Bring into Novels
- Whose Culture Is It?
- Ethical Implications
- Introducing Cultural Mapping
- Mapping Cultural Normativity
- Practical Approaches to Mapping Culture
- Exploring a Single Approach to Cultural Mapping
- Using Spiderwebs to Map Cultures
- Breaking Culture into Components and Using the Components as Bricks
- World View
- Mapping and World View at Play in Fiction
- The Role of the Hidden
- Gender as an Illustration of Use of Culture in Fiction
- How Deeper Representational Assumptions are Transmitted Through Influential Writers: The Case of Upfield and Shute in Australia
- A Return to Story Space and the Building of Worlds for Fiction
- Diaspora
- Depicting Others in Fiction
- Bringing the Tools and Constructs Together
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
