The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction, Maria Loschnigg, Rebekka Schuh

Автор: MacArthur Elizabeth Jane
Название: Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form
ISBN: 0691605025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691605029
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme

Автор: Tuire Valkeakari
Название: Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction
ISBN: 0813062470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062471
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Precarious Passages, Tuire Valkeakari analyzes the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. She shows how their novels connect with each other and with defining moments in the transatlantic experience marked by migration and displacement from home, continually reimagining what it means to share a black diasporic identity.

Автор: Bekhta Natalya
Название: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 081421441X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814214411
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Описание: Natalya Bekhta's We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shaped by the pronoun "we," probing the tensions between individuality and collectivity in more recent narratives in English. Despite a growing interest in collective characters and the we-form in narratology and beyond, narrative theory has not yet done justice to the plural voice in fiction. In fact, the formulation of a poetics of collective expression needs clear theoretical conventions and a reassessment of established concepts in order to approach plural voices and agents on their own terms. We-Narratives addresses this demand by distinguishing between indicative and performative uses of the first-person plural pronoun in fiction and by identifying formal and rhetorical possibilities of stories told by group narrators.
What does it mean for a multitude to speak as one? How can a truly collective narrative voice be achieved or lost? What are its aesthetic and political repercussions? In order to tackle these questions, Bekhta reads a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka. She also focuses on narrative innovation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag. These narratives feature group protagonists and narrators and therefore offer insight into collective narrative discourse and focalization, construction of communal knowledge and unreliability. We-narrative, taken as a distinct storytelling form, illuminates fiction's expressive potential and nuances models of narrative analysis.

Автор: Earle Monalesia
Название: Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives
ISBN: 147667454X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476674544
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this book addresses the imbalanced representation of queer women of colour in graphic narratives and fiction and explores ways of rewriting queer women of colour back into the frame. The author interrogates what it means to be ""Other"" and how ""Othering"" can be more creatively resisted.