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almafu_9960024694502883
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9780292734975
Content:
Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction, fifteen renowned luminaries use tools of narratology and insights from cognitive science and neurobiology to provide answers to these questions and more. With essays ranging from James Phelan's "Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God" and Hilary Dannenberg's "Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television" to Ellen McCracken's exploration of paratextual strategies in Chicana literature, this expansive collection turns the tide on approaches to postcolonial and multicultural phenomena that tend to compress author and narrator, text and real life. Striving to celebrate the art of fiction, the voices in this anthology explore the "ingredients" that make for powerful, universally intriguing, deeply human story-weaving. Systematically synthesizing the tools of narrative theory along with findings from the brain sciences to analyze multicultural and postcolonial film, literature, and television, the contributors pioneer new techniques for appreciating all facets of the wonder of storytelling.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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How to Use This Book --
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Part I. Voice --
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1. U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Fiction: Toward a Poetics of Collective Narratives --
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2. Language Peculiarities and Challenges to Universal Narrative Poetics --
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3. Reading Narratologically: Azouz Begag’s Le Gone du Chaâba --
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4. Jasmine Reconsidered: Narrative Structure and Multicultural Subjectivity --
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5. Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and the Debate about the Narration --
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6. Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television Documentary and Comedy --
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Part II. Emotion --
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7. Anger, Temporality, and the Politics of Reading The Woman Warrior --
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8. Agency and Emotion: R. K. Narayan’s The Guide --
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9. The Narrativization of National Metaphors in Indian Cinema --
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10. Fear and Action: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching --
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Part III. Comparisons and Contrasts --
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11. The Postmodern Continuum of Canon and Kitsch: Narrative and Semiotic Strategies of Chicana High Culture and Chica Lit --
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12. Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives --
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13. “It’s Badly Done”: Redefi ning Craft in America Is in the Heart --
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14. Nobody Knows: Invisible Man and John Okada’s No-No Boy --
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15. Intertextuality, Translation, and Postcolonial Misrecognition in Aimé Césaire --
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Afterword. How This Book Reads You: Looking beyond Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory --
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Works Cited and Filmography --
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Contributor Notes --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292734975
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292734975
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