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Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology book cover

1st Edition

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology

Edited By Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, Mario Grill Copyright 2022
244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology  explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume interrogate the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use... Read more

Foreword: Ethnoracial Encounters: From Myopic to Polyscopic Planetary Narratologies

Frederick Luis Aldama

Introduction: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures

Alexa Weik von Mossner

PART 1: Narrating Race and Ethnicity across Time and Space

  1. Indigenous Time / Indigenous Narratives: The Political Implications of Non-Linear Time in Contemporary Native Fiction

    2. James J. Donahue

  2. Time(s) of Race: Narrative Temporalities, Epistemic Storytelling, and the Human Species in Ted Chiang

    3.

    Matthias Klestil

  3. Polychronic Narration, Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief, and Mario Alberto Zambrano’s Lotería

    4.

    Mario Grill

  4. Whole New Worlds: An Exploration of Narrative Strategies Used in Afrodiasporic Speculative Fiction

    5.

    Marlene D. Allen Ahmed

    PART 2: Haunting Memories: Narrative, Race, and Emotion

  5. Emotions that Haunt: Attachment Relations in Lan Samantha Chang’s Fiction

    6.

    W. Michelle Wang

  6. Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

    7.

    Marijana Mikić

  7. "There Were Strands of Darker Stories": Reading Third-Generation Holocaust Literature as Midrash

    8.

    Stella Setka

  8. Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs

    9. Alexa Weik von Mossner

    PART 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Paratexts: Genre Structures and Author Functions

  9. Healing Narratives: Historical Representations in Latinx Young Adult Literature

    10.

    Elizabeth Garcia

  10. Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

    11. Patrick Colm Hogan

  11. Metaparatextual Satire in Percival Everett’s The Book of Training and Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice

    12.

    Derek C. Maus

  12. Author Functions, Literary Functions, and Racial Representations or What We Talk about When We Talk about Diversifying Narrative Studies

           Jennifer Ho

Biography

Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Marijana Mikić is a PhD researcher on the FWF-funded project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Mario Grill is a PhD researcher on the FWF-funded project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

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