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Claiming the Right to Say No experience. This attention to the narrative structure of our experience allows us to understand how a society collectively attempts to organize itself. The study of narrative has a long history with significant developments in recent times. In literature, we can trace the work of Wayne Booth and Kenneth Burke, Robert Scholes, Robert Kellog, Frank Kermode. The French structuralist literary theory also featured a strong emphasis on the narratives. Basing their work on eastern European linguists, such as Vladimir Propp and Roman Jakobson, French scholars like Roland Barthes, A.J Greimas and Claude Bremond, have produced significant studies of narrative structure. The work of Hayden White attempted to demonstrate the narrative character of history. Thus, the analysis of the narrative that centred on the literature and structuralism embraced history and demonstrated that we are bound by culturally shaped rules that guide our ‘story-telling’. These rules provide narrative coherence and let us think that there is a natural relationship between the narrative and the real world. But, to attribute narrative coherence to real events is, according to some scholars, wishful thinking at its best. Thus the narrative is incapable of capturing and representing the world. That is why, Paul Ricoeur teaches that narrative opens us to ‘the realm of the ‘as if’. This means narrative introduces something new, and what it introduces is a synthesis of the heterogeneous. It re-describes the world. Thus, narrativization dresses up reality, to put across a moral view of the world in the interest of power and manipulation. The fact that there is a distance between the real world and the narrative should not make us think that there is no link between narrative and our daily life. Indeed narrative arises out of and is pre-figured in certain features of life, action and communication and are successfully ordained to control, manipulate and order human experience. Enthusiastic Narrativists contend that we receive our identity as persons and derive the content of our obligations, rights and responsibilities from the narratives embraced by our communities. This view might be greeted as narrativist imperialism yet the place, the power and the importance of narrative cannot be brushed aside as it forms the character-and- conduct- 2
Tourism in Goa: A Narrative Construction of Hosts and Visitors and lifestyle guiding as well as evaluating ethos of community. The narrative impulse is indeed deeply embedded in our life. Ricoeur’s later work strives to present this view as it argues that the desire to be, the task of existence, is inseparable from scripting of an individual is story that gathers together the untold and sometimes repressed narrative fragments constitutive of personal identity. The narrative that we share presents a ‘life-plot’ that becomes an imperative of life. Narrative Construction of Goa Tourism in Goa is deeply embedded in a narrative. This narrative describes Goa as an ultimate holiday destination. It influences both the hosts and the visitors. This narrative presented Goa as a land of endless fun. That is, Goa is not just a State of India; it is a State of mind, a State of being. The power of tourism discourse that tries to combine narrative with spectacle to represent Goa as ‘timeless’ is unmatched. It is almost presented as untouched, unspoiled and paradisiacal. This narrative stereotyping of Goa presents highly romanticised and crudely hedonist picture to the imperial eye of the tourist. Narrative Enticements of Visitors The narrative construction of Goa as an ‘exotic other’ imposes an imperative to visit and conquer. Hence, the tourist comes with expectations that are triggered by the narratives that they have received about Goa. Often the domestic tourists who visit Goa look at Goa with a degree of mysticism and a sense of freedom from their conventional culture. They come in search of the culture that is ‘different’ from the rest of India. The foreign tourists visit Goa purely for natural environment- the sun and the beaches. They come in two categories: the backpackers and the charter tourists. The backpackers keep their distance from the charter tourists. They prefer to mingle and live with the local communities while the charter tourists tend to stay in the luxury starred hotels. According to Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur, self-identity is a matter of culturally and socially mediated self-definitions, which are practically relevant for one’s orientations in life. Drawing on their work, we can understand how the 3
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