Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Turning Points as Metaphors and Mininarrations: Analysing Concepts of Change in Literature and Other Media 1
5. I. Concepts of Change in Narrative Theory
6. “With the Benefit of Hindsight”: Features and Functions of Turning Points as a Narratological Concept and as a Way of Self-Making 31
7. Turning Points in the Nineteenth-Century Novella: Poetic Negotiations and the Representation of Social Rituals 59
8. Iterative Narration and Other Forms of Resistance to Peripeties in Modernist Writing 73
9. The Missing Turning Points in the Story: Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Between Ethics and Epistemology 85
10. “If the Stranger hadn’t been there! … But he was!” Causal, Virtual and Evaluative Dimensions of Turning Points in Alternate Histories, Science-Fiction Stories and Multiverse Narratives 107
11. II. Narratives of Cultural Change in Literature and Visual Media
12. On the Threshold: The Brothel and the Literary Salon as Heterotopias in Finnish Urban Novels 125
13. Long Waves or Vanishing Points? A Cognitive Approach to the Literary Construction of History 145
14. (Re)Turn to Dystopia: Community Feeling in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village 159
15. Remediating Turning Points for Conviviality and Englishness in Contemporary Black British Literature 175
16. This Is (Not) It: Rate, Rattle and Roll in the Struggle for Financial Narratives 191
17. III. Turning Point Narratives in Literary and Cinematic Life-Writing
18. Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Formation of African American Fiction 213
19. Reframing Absence: Masquerade as Turning Point in Du Maurier’s and Hitchcock’s Rebecca 229
20. Player in the Dark: Mourning the Loss of the Moral Foundation of Art in Woody Allen’s Match Point 245
21. Roots, Seduction and Mestiçagem in José Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives 269
22. A Middle Passage to Modernity: Reflections on David Dabydeen’s Postmodern Slave Narrative A Harlot’s Progress 285
23. Becoming the ‘Other’: Metamorphosis and ‘Turning Points’ in Katja Lange-Müller and Yoko Tawada 301
24. IV. Constructing Turning Points in Literary History
25. Lay Pamphlets in the Early Reformation: Turning Points in Religious Discourse and the Pamphlet Genre? 319
26. The King is Dead, Long Live … the Queen: Turning Points in Panegyric Writing – Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) 337
27. Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre 351
28. Dickens and The Pickwick Papers: Unstable Signs in a Transmodal Discourse 361
29. Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Case Study of Austen Fan Fiction 371
30. New Media and the Novel: A Survey of Generic Trends in Contemporary Literature 387
31. V. (De)Constructing Turning Points in Literary Theory
32. On the Linguistic Turns in the Humanities and Their Effect on Literary Studies 407
33. Turning Points and Mutuality in Literature and Psychoanalysis 425
34. The Speaking Animal Speaking the Animal: Three Turning Points in Thinking the Animal 437
35. Notes on Contributors 453