| Description |
1 online resource (x, 324 pages) : maps |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Factual Places and Fictional Routes -- Part I. Narrating and Describing West Africa. 1. The Enchanted Arrival : Passage into West Africa in the Travel Writings of Blaise Cendrars, André Gide, and Graham Greene -- 2. The Rhetoric of the Mad African Forest in Joseph Conrad, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Graham Greene -- 3. Travel Narrative between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence in Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps -- Part II. Travel Writing and the Novel. 4. The Immediacy of Reading : André Gide's Travel Fact and Travel Fictions -- 5. The Incongruous Worlds of Evelyn Waugh's Ethiopia -- 6. A Critique of the African Picturesque in Georges Simenon's Travel Reportages and Novels -- Part III. Inventions of Life Narrative. 7. Virtual Genres in Pierre Loti's and Joseph Conrad's African Travel Diaries and Fiction -- 8. Out of Europe : The African Palimpsest in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantôme -- 9. Africanist Paradoxes of Storytelling in Karen Blixen's Out of Africa -- In Conclusion : Fiction, Colonial Travel Narrative, and the Allegorist |
| Summary |
"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 fiction-nonfiction 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 fiction-nonfiction distinction. With chapters on a wide range of modernist authors--from 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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European fiction -- History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
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Travel writing -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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European fiction
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Literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Travel writing
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Travelers' writings, European
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Africa, Sub-Saharan -- In literature
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814273760 |
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0814273769 |
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