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User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction by Frederick Luis Aldama (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction?. In which ways does fiction differ from reality?. What might fictional narrative and reality have in common—if anything?. 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.

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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292725779

ISBN-139780292725775

eBay Product ID (ePID)99720697

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

Publication NameUser's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAmerican / General, Rhetoric, American / Hispanic American, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorFrederick Luis Aldama

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.540986872

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Putting the World Back into Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Literature Chapter One: A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction Chapter Two: Putting the Fiction Back into Arundhati Roy Chapter Three: History as Handmaiden to Fiction in Amitav Ghosh Chapter Four: Fictional World Making in Zadie Smith and Hari Kunzru Chapter Five: This Is Your Brain on Latino Comics Chapter Six: Reading the Latino Borderland Short Story Notes Works Cited Index

SynopsisWhy 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., 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., A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.

LC Classification NumberPS153.M4A45 2011