A Digression About Storytelling, Narratives, and Diversity by BÁRBARA MORAIS
A Digression About Storytelling, Narratives, and Diversity is an essay by Brazilian author and essayist Bárbara Morais that first appeared in the fourth volume of our Quarterly Almanac. A Digression About Storytelling, Narratives, and Diversity When I was in college, I had one class about writing. I have a degree in Economics, so it was a surprise when my Projects teacher opened her presentation and started babbling about sentences, structures and style. It was nothing new to me—I thought—and then she came to a part where she started to talk about narrative. About the way people think and the way they put their thoughts into the paper. I had never given much thought about it until that class. She showed us how the anglophonic way of writing was the most prized one in the scientific scene, specially in the Economics field as it went straight to the point: “John Doe killed a guy in Bolivia”. And people that speak languages that have latin roots, like us, who speak Portuguese, are used to digress: “Do you know John Doe, that guy who was friends with my grandma’s cousin, and whose mother died in that terrible accident? Oh, gosh, his father, the […]
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