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Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives

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Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has for some time recognized the importance of context in the analysis of fiction, this recognition has not quickly translated into substantial work in fields like postcolonialism, where situated questions of value and ideology have been brought to the fore. Postcolonial criticism, on the other hand, has often neglected the formal qualities of fiction in preference for ideological thematic interpretations, precisely because of the suspect legacy of formalism. The volume, then, stages a meeting between these two fields, negotiating both narratological and postcolonialist concerns by addressing specific features of narrative form and technique in the ideological analysis of key postcolonial texts.

The thirteen essays in Narratology and Ideology offer compelling readings of individual novels, with a focus upon South Asian literature, that provide a cumulative case study on the value of postcolonial narratology. The essays show not only how narrative theory can be productively applied in service of postcolonial criticism but also how such attention to postcolonial fictions can challenge and refine our theoretical understanding of narrative.

ISBN-13: 9780814254752

Media Type: Paperback(1)

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Publication Date: 05-13-2018

Pages: 292

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Series: THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV

Divya Dwivedi is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the Indian Institute. Henrik Skov Nielsen is Professor at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Richard Walsh is Reader in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Introduction Divya Dwivedi Henrik Skov Nielsen Richard Walsh 1

Part 1 Narrative in Question

Chapter 1 Fractured Tales and Colonial Traumas: Disfigured Stories in Kashmiri Short Fiction Patrick Colm Hogan 37

Chapter 2 No Center and No Margins: Narrativizing Return Journeys in Works by M. G. Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, and Rohinton Mistry Martin Löschnigg 55

Chapter 3 The Legibility of Things: Objects and Public Histories in N. S. Madhavan's Litanies of the Dutch Battery Udaya Kumar 74

Part II Zones of Narrative (Para-, Meta-, Intra-)

Chapter 4 Metanarrative Signs in Ousmane Sembène's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu. Banty mam Yall Gerald Prince 93

Chapter 5 A Contextual Rhetorical Analysis of Audiences in E. M. Forster's Preface to Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable Sarah Copland 102

Chapter 6 Ideological Ambivalence: A Reading of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Jan Alber 120

Part III Voice and Narrator

Chapter 7 "We are the people of the Apokalis": Narrative Voice and the Negotiation of Power Structures in Indra Sinha's Animal's People Marion Gymnich 141

Chapter 8 Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Toward's a Critical, Culturalist Narratology Greta Olson 156

Chapter 9 The Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent": Postcolonial and Rhetorical Perspectives James Phelan 173

Part IV Strategies, Narrative and Postcolonial

Chapter 10 Ideology, Dissidence, Subversion: A Narratological Perspective Monika Fludernik 193

Chapter 11 The Apocalypse That Will Never Be: Decolonization, Proleptic History, and Satire in India, c. 1946-51 Baidik Bhattacharya 213

Part V Narrative, Theory, Ideology

Chapter 12 In the Absence of Post Mieke Bal 231

Chapter 13 The Addressee Function, or the Uses of Narratological Laity: Lessons of Khasak Divya Dwivedi 251

List of Contributors 273

Index 277