The Woman Who Had Two Navels

What is the narrator point of view in the story collection, The Woman Who Had Two Navels?

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Nearly all sections of the all the stories in "The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic" are written in omniscient third person, meaning that the narrator is a disembodied voice untethered to any specific character, who may at times even have information or insight that is unknown to the characters featured in the narration. Since this collection of stories is structurally concerned with highlighting and experimenting with the Filipino tradition of oral storytelling and folklore, having the stories related in the third person makes it clear that these are not necessarily intimate, personal accounts, but rather are stories that are often didactic in nature or derived from folk traditions, and have been passed down through generations.

The single section of the collection that breaks from the third person point of view is "The Mass of St. Sylvestre," which reads something like a story within a story.

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The Woman Who Had Two Navels, BookRags