|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910822532403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Aldama Frederick Luis <1969-> |
|
|
Titolo |
A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction / / Frederick Luis Aldama |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2009 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (209 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
American fiction - Mexican American authors - History and criticism |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism |
English fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Narration (Rhetoric) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction -- Putting the fiction back into Arundhati Roy -- History as handmaiden to fiction in Amitav Ghosh -- Fictional world making in Zadie Smith and Hari Kunzru -- This is your brain on Latino comics -- Reading the Latino borderland short story. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common—if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it |
|
|
|
|