Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology (Narrative Theory and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032198532 ISBN 13: 9781032198538

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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 narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity, along with other important identity markers such as class, religion, gender, and sexuality. Importantly, the book also explores how paying attention to the formal features of ethnic American literatures changes our under-standing of narrative theory and how narrative theories can help us to think about author functions and race. The international and diverse group of contributors includes top scholars in narrative theory and in race and ethnic studies, and the texts they analyze concern a wide variety of topics, from the representation of time and space to the narration of trauma and other deeply emotional memories to the importance of literary paratexts, genre structures, and author functions.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032198532
• ISBN 13: 9781032198538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Weik Von Mossner Alexa, Mikić Marijana, Grill Mario