Narrative theory unbound : queer and feminist interventions / edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser.

"Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory and interpretation of narrative. The first edited collection to bring feminist, queer, and narr...

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Other Authors: Warhol, Robyn R. (Editor), Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944- (Editor)
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University, [2015]
Series:Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser
  • Part I. Narrative discourse unbound. Toward (a queerer and) more (feminist) narratology / Susan S. Lanser
  • Out of the bind : from structure to system in popular narratives / Judith Roof
  • Giving an account of themselves : metanarration and the structure of address in the office and the real housewives / Robyn Warhol
  • Hypothetical focalization and queer grief / Peggy Phelan.
  • Part II. Intersectional narrative theories. Religion, intersectionality, and queer/feminist narrative theory : the Bildungsromane of Ahdaf Soueif, Leila Aboulela, and Randa Jarrar / Susan Stanford Friedman
  • Intersectional narratology in the study of narrative empathy / Suzanne Keen
  • Empathy and 1970s novels by Third World women / Sue J. Kim.
  • Part III. Lifewriting, gender, sex. Screenshots in the longue durée : feminist narratology, digital humanities, and collective biographies of women / Alison Booth
  • The space of graphic narrative : mapping bodies, feminism, and form / Hillary Chute
  • The narrative case for queer biography / Wendy Moffat
  • "No future" vs. "It gets better" : queer prospects for narrative temporality / Jesse Matz.
  • Part IV. Emplotment, or, The shapes of stories. Maurice, or, Coming out straight / Paul Morrison
  • Strange influence : queer etiology in the picture of Dorian Gray / Valerie Rohy
  • Gendered narratives in animal studies / Susan Fraiman
  • Sex--text--cortex / Kay Young.
  • Part V. Challenges : un/doing narrative theory. Towards a queer feminism, or, Feminist theories and/as queer narrative studies / Abby Coykendall
  • Queer/feminist/narrative : on the limits of reciprocal engagement / Martin Joseph Ponce
  • Critically affirmative reconfigurations / Claudia Breger
  • Narrative causes : inside and out / Ellen Peel
  • The human problem / Shalyn Claggett
  • Afterword / Irene Kacandes.