A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction

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

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Subjects:
American fiction > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism.
English fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
American fiction > Mexican American authors
Commonwealth fiction (English)
English fiction > Minority authors
Postcolonialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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