LEADER 04297nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910822532403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79917-9 024 7 $a10.7560/719682 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805773 035 $a(OCoLC)451488055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331716 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266052 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266052 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300781 035 $a(PQKB)11705296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443424 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2397 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443424 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331716 035 $a(DE-B1597)587044 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292799172 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805773 100 $a20081215d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction /$fFrederick Luis Aldama 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71968-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aWhy are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common?if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations. Aldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences. 410 0$aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 676 $a813/.540986872 700 $aAldama$b Frederick Luis$f1969-$0855054 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822532403321 996 $aA user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction$94051921 997 $aUNINA