04324nam 2200709Ia 450 991077857770332120230721023000.00-292-79917-910.7560/719682(CKB)1000000000805773(OCoLC)451488055(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331716(SSID)ssj0000266052(PQKBManifestationID)11214737(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266052(PQKBWorkID)10300781(PQKB)11705296(MiAaPQ)EBC3443424(MdBmJHUP)muse2397(Au-PeEL)EBL3443424(CaPaEBR)ebr10331716(DE-B1597)587044(DE-B1597)9780292799172(EXLCZ)99100000000080577320081215d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction[electronic resource] /Frederick Luis Aldama1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20091 online resource (209 p.) Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-71968-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations. Aldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences.Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.American fictionMexican American authorsHistory and criticismCommonwealth fiction (English)History and criticismEnglish fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismPostcolonialism in literatureFictionHistory and criticismTheory, etcNarration (Rhetoric)American fictionMexican American authorsHistory and criticism.Commonwealth fiction (English)History and criticism.English fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Postcolonialism in literature.FictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Narration (Rhetoric)813/.540986872Aldama Frederick Luis1969-855054MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778577703321A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction3843703UNINA