Contemporary Native Fiction - Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance

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 narratology, rhetorical narratology, and unnatural narratology - in order to demonstrate how the formal structure of these narratives engage the political issues raised in the text. Additionally, each chapter shows how the inclusion of Native American/First Nations-authored narratives productively advance the theoretical work project of those narrative theories. This book offers a broad survey of possible means by which narrative theory and critical race theories can productively work together and is key reading for students and researchers working in this area.

List of contents

Introduction: Notes Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance

Chapter 1: Focalizing Survivance; Racializing Narratology

Chapter 2: Gendered Survivance and Intersectional Narratology

Chapter 3: Rhetorical Narrative and Racially Charged Disclosure

Chapter 4: Naturalizing Unnatural Native Narrative

Coda: Where Do We Go from Here?

Bibliography

About the author

James J. Donahue is Associate Professor of English & Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is the author of Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance as well as co-editor of Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States and Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights.

Summary

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. This book offers a broad survey of possible means by which narrative theory and critical race theories can productively work together.

Product details

• Authors: James Donahue, James J. Donahue, Donahue James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032093703
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209370-3
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Narrative Theory and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, American indigenous languages, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous