A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction
By: Frederick Luis Aldama.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780292719682
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)
Description: "This book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. [author] uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A user's guide to postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction; title: Putting the fiction back into Arundhati Roy; title: History as handmaiden to fiction in Amitav Ghosh; title: Fictional world making in Zadie Smith and Hari Kunzru; title: This is your brain on Latino comics; title: Reading the Latino borderland short story.