Table of Contents

• How to Use This Book (Frederick Luis Aldama)
• Part I: Voice
  • 1. U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Fiction: Toward a Poetics of Collective Narratives (Brian Richardson)
  • 2. Language Peculiarities and Challenges to Universal Narrative Poetics (Dan Shen)
  • 3. Reading Narratologically: Azouz Begag's Le Gone du Chaâba (Gerald Prince)
  • 4. Jasmine Reconsidered: Narrative Structure and Multicultural Subjectivity (Robyn Warhol)
  • 5. Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and the Debate about the Narration (James Phelan)
  • 6. Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television Documentary and Comedy (Hilary P. Dannenberg)
• Part II: Emotion
  • 7. Anger, Temporality, and the Politics of Reading The Woman Warrior (Sue J. Kim)
  • 8. Agency and Emotion: R. K. Narayan's The Guide (Lalita Pandit Hogan)
  • 9. The Narrativization of National Metaphors in Indian Cinema (Patrick Colm Hogan)
  • 10. Fear and Action: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Children of Men (Arturo J. Aldama)
• Part III: Comparisons and Contrasts
  • 11. The Postmodern Continuum of Canon and Kitsch: Narrative and Semiotic Strategies of Chicana High Culture and Chica Lit (Ellen McCracken)
  • 12. Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives (Catherine Romagnolo)
  • 13. "It's Badly Done": Redefining Craft in America Is in the Heart (Sue-Im Lee)
  • 14. Nobody Knows: Invisible Man and John Okada's No-No Boy (Josephine Nock-Hee Park)
  • 15. Intertextuality, Translation, and Postcolonial Misrecognition in Aimé Césaire (Paul Breslin)
• Afterword. How This Book Reads You: Looking beyond Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory (William Anthony Nericcio)
• Works Cited and Filmography
• Contributor Notes

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A sweeping collection of approaches to narrative theory, with analyses drawn from a variety of truly global literature, films, and television shows

About the Author

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of eleven books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism; the MLA–award winning Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas; Why the Humanities Matter; Your Brain on Latino Comics; and A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction.

Reviews

"This collection of sixteen essays grew out of the symposium "Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory" (Ohio State University, October 2007). Its aim, as the editor states in the preface, is to bring together narrative theory and US ethnic and postcolonial studies. The essays collected here include analyses of African American, Asian American, Chinese, Filipino American, Francophone Caribbean, French, Mexican, South Asian Indian, and US Latina narratives, encompassing different media - literature, theater, cinema, and television. This collection of sixteen essays grew out of the symposium "Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory" (Ohio State University, October 2007). Its aim, as the editor states in the preface, is to bring together narrative theory and US ethnic and postcolonial studies. The essays collected here include analyses of African American, Asian American, Chinese, Filipino American, Francophone Caribbean, French, Mexican, South Asian Indian, and US Latina narratives, encompassing different media - literature, theater, cinema, and television." - Eyal Segal, Poetics Today