1st Edition
Contemporary Native Fiction Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance
By James Donahue
Copyright 2019
188 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist narratology, rhetorical narratology, and unnatural narratology – in order to demonstrate how the... Read more
Introduction: Towards 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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Biography
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.
