Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction
Kai Mikkonen
In Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, Kai Mikkonen argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, journal keeping, and fiction converged and mutually influenced each other in ways that inform current debates about the fictionnonfiction distinction. Turning to narratives set in sub-Saharan Africa, Mikkonen identifies five main dimensions of interplay between fiction and nonfiction: the experiential frame of the journey, the redefinition of the language and objective of description, the shared cultural givens and colonial notions concerning sub-Saharan Africa, the theme of narrativisation, and the issue of virtual genres. Narrative Paths reveals the important role that travel played as a frame in these modernist fictions as well as the crucial ways that nonfiction travel narratives appropriated fictional strategies.
Narrative Paths contributes to debates in narratology and rhetorical narrative theory about the fictionnonfiction distinction. With chapters on a wide range of modernist authorsfrom Pierre Loti, André Gide, Michel Leiris, and Georges Simenon to Blaise Cendrars, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)Mikkonen’s study also contributes to postcolonial approaches to these authors, examining issues of representation, narrative voice, and authority in narratives about colonial Africa.
Narrative Paths contributes to debates in narratology and rhetorical narrative theory about the fictionnonfiction distinction. With chapters on a wide range of modernist authorsfrom Pierre Loti, André Gide, Michel Leiris, and Georges Simenon to Blaise Cendrars, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)Mikkonen’s study also contributes to postcolonial approaches to these authors, examining issues of representation, narrative voice, and authority in narratives about colonial Africa.
వర్గాలు:
సంవత్సరం:
2015
ముద్రణం:
1
ప్రచురణకర్త:
Ohio State University Press
భాష:
english
పేజీల సంఖ్య:
368
ISBN 10:
0814212743
ISBN 13:
9780814212745
పుస్తక శ్రేణి:
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
ఫైల్:
PDF, 4.97 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015