Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance

ISBN-13: 9781032093703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

James Donahue

Opis

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. This book offers a broad survey of possible means by which narrative theory and critical race theories can productively work together.

Spis treści

Introduction: Notes Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance

Chapter 1: Focalizing Survivance; Racializing Narratology

Chapter 2: Gendered Survivance and Intersectional Narratology

Chapter 3: Rhetorical Narrative and Racially Charged Disclosure

Chapter 4: Naturalizing Unnatural Native Narrative

Coda: Where Do We Go from Here?

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O autorze

James J. Donahue is Associate Professor of English & Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is the author of Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance as well as co-editor of Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States and Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights.