NARRATIVE, RACE, AND ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States: JAMES J. DONAHUE
CHAPTER 1: What Asian American Studies and Narrative Theory Can Do for Each Other: SUE J. KIM
CONTEXT AND FORM
SOCIAL MINDS
CHAPTER 2: Narrative Form, Ideal Readerships, and Oscar “Zeta” Acosta’s The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: CHRISTOPHER GONZÁLEZ
CHAPTER 3: Narrative Disidentification: Beginnings in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: CATHERINE ROMAGNOLO
CHAPTER 4: Narrative Process and Cultural Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: STEPHEN SPENCER
CHAPTER 5: Black World / White World: Narrative Worldmaking in Jim Crow America: BLAKE WILDER
CHAPTER 6: Postblack Unnatural Narrative—Or, Is the Implied Author of Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier Black?: CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT
(UN)RACE-ING THE IMPLIED AUTHOR
DEAD RINGER FOR (NOT) SIDNEY: PERCIVAL EVERETT’S I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 7: The Presumptions of Whiteness in Ann Petry’s Country Place: STEPHANIE LI
COUNTRY PLACE’S “MEDIUM”
DOC FRASER AND THE WEASEL
CHAPTER 8: “One Silence Had Led to Another”: Strategic Paralipsis and a Non-Normative Narrator in Bitter in the Mouth: PATRICK E. HORN
CHAPTER 9: Rhetorical Narrative Theory and Native American Literature: The Antimimetic in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: JOSEPH COULOMBE
CHAPTER 10: Narration on the Lower Frequencies in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: STERLING LECATER BLAND JR.
CHAPTER 11: Race as Interpretive Lens: Focalization and Critique of Globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy”: SHAUN MORGAN
CHAPTER 12: Race, Cosmopolitanism, and the Complexities of Belonging in the Open City: Teju Cole’s Transcontinental Aesthetics: CLAUDIA BREGER
CHAPTER 13: Caribbean Book Nerds: Recentering to Possible Worlds in Judith Cofer and Junot Díaz: DEBORAH NOEL
NARRATOLOGY, POSSIBILITY, PROXIMITY
HOMO-NARRATIVE CAPTURE
SOMEDAY, SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE? WHITE SOJOURNS INTO THE BROWN FUTURE
THE TELENOVELA AND THE POLICE
AFTERWORD: Intersections and Future Connections: JENNIFER ANN HO
WORKS CITED
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: JAMES PHELAN, PETER J. RABINOWITZ, AND ROBYN WARHOL, SERIES EDITORS