A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction / Frederick Luis Aldama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth fiction (English).

English fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79917-9

OCLC:

451488055