Narrative Theory and Culture
About the Book Series
Books in our series Narrative Theory and Culture focus on bridging the scholarly gap between narrative theory and cultural studies and addressing the disconnect. The study of narrative is one of the pillars of the study of literature and one of its foremost movements. However, narrative theory has generally missed opportunities for examinations of culturally-located narratives, just as cultural studies has tended to look past issues of narrative form and design. This series aims to put these areas of study into conversation with one another.
Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls
1st Edition
Edited
By Esther Álvarez López, Andrea Fernández-García
October 07, 2024
This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism. The focus on this abject figure is twofold: first, to explore its potential to expose the processes of othering to...
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, Mario Grill
January 29, 2024
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions ...
Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives: Narrating Other Minds
1st Edition
By Hyesu Park
May 31, 2023
This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways. By paying special attention to what narrative theorists have regarded as one of the most extraordinary aspects ...
American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Patrick Colm Hogan
May 31, 2023
In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated national identity formation in influential ...
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Wyatt, Sheldon George
December 13, 2021
Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ...
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance
1st Edition
By James Donahue
June 30, 2021
Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative theory – structuralist narratology, feminist ...
Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel
1st Edition
By Zena Meadowsong
September 30, 2020
Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel grapples with a new and increasingly acute ...