1. U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Fiction: Toward a Poetics of Collective Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. How to Use This Book vii
4. Part I. Voice
5. 1. U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Fiction: Toward a Poetics of Collective Narratives 3
6. 2. Language Peculiarities and Challenges to Universal Narrative Poetics 17
7. 3. Reading Narratologically: Azouz Begag’s Le Gone du Chaâba 33
8. 4. Jasmine Reconsidered: Narrative Structure and Multicultural Subjectivity 41
9. 5. Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and the Debate about the Narration 57
10. 6. Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television Documentary and Comedy 75
11. Part II. Emotion
12. 7. Anger, Temporality, and the Politics of Reading The Woman Warrior 93
13. 8. Agency and Emotion: R. K. Narayan’s The Guide 109
14. 9. The Narrativization of National Metaphors in Indian Cinema 135
15. 10. Fear and Action: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching 151
16. Part III. Comparisons and Contrasts
17. 11. The Postmodern Continuum of Canon and Kitsch: Narrative and Semiotic Strategies of Chicana High Culture and Chica Lit 165
18. 12. Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives 183
19. 13. “It’s Badly Done”: Redefi ning Craft in America Is in the Heart 199
20. 14. Nobody Knows: Invisible Man and John Okada’s No-No Boy 227
21. 15. Intertextuality, Translation, and Postcolonial Misrecognition in Aimé Césaire 245
22. Afterword. How This Book Reads You: Looking beyond Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory 269
23. Works Cited and Filmography 277
24. Contributor Notes 297
25. Index 301