Reimagining Narratives: Evolving Contexts in English Literature and Cultural Discourse

Abstract

The paper extensively surveys the changing tides in English literature and cultural discourse, investigating how more contemporary scholars have re-read or re-interpreted earlier narratives based on changing socio-political technologies and postcolonial outlooks. Drawing on perspectives from postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and digital humanities, the research looks at how narratives are being re-constituted by globalization, identity politics, and recent digital media accident turnover. The findings provide that there are three modes of narrative evolution: postcolonial re-imaginings that overturn Eurocentric history, the postmodern fragmentation of narrative form, and the trans/media-tion of narrative when originally in print into digital spaces, which establishes a different relationship with the reader. The paper ends by suggesting new interesting avenues for literary analysis in an age of algorithmic storytelling capabilities and AI models. More generally, the paper asserts that literary analyses require more fluid methodologies to account for these shifts.