Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book vii frederick luis aldama PART I. Voice 1 1. U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Fiction: Toward a Poetics of Collective Narratives 3 brian richardson 2. Language Peculiarities and Challenges to Universal Narrative Poetics 17 dan shen 3. Reading Narratologically: Azouz Begag’s Le Gone du Chaâba 33 gerald prince 4. Jasmine Reconsidered: Narrative Structure and Multicultural Subjectivity 41 robyn warhol 5. Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and the Debate about the Narration 57 james phelan 6. Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television Documentary and Comedy 75 hilary p. dannenberg Table of Contents PART II. Emotion 91 7. Anger, Temporality, and the Politics of Reading The Woman Warrior 93 sue j. kim 8. Agency and Emotion: R. K. Narayan’s The Guide 109 lalita pandit hogan 9. The Narrativization of National Metaphors in Indian Cinema 135 patrick colm hogan 10. Fear and Action: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Children of Men 151 arturo j. aldama PART III. Comparisons and Contrasts 163 11. The Postmodern Continuum of Canon and Kitsch: Narrative and Semiotic Strategies of Chicana High Culture and Chica Lit 165 ellen mccracken 12. Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives 183 catherine romagnolo 13. “It’s Badly Done”: Redefining Craft in America Is in the Heart 199 sue-im lee 14. Nobody Knows: Invisible Man and John Okada’s No-No Boy 227 josephine nock-hee park 15. Intertextuality, Translation, and Postcolonial Misrecognition in Aimé Césaire 245 paul breslin Afterword. How This Book Reads You: Looking beyond Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory 269 william anthony nericcio Works Cited and Filmography 277 Contributor Notes 297 Index 301 vi Analyzing World Fiction ...