Narratology and Ideology:
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
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INTRODUCTION: DIVYA DWIVEDI, HENRIK SKOV NIELSEN, RICHARD WALSH
FORMALISM AND IDEOLOGY IN NARRATIVE THEORY
POSTCOLONIALISM, LITERARY CRITICISM, AND NARRATIVE&
NARRATOLOGICAL ISSUES FOR POSTCOLONIAL TEXTS
THE ESSAYS
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PART I: NARRATIVE IN QUESTION
CHAPTER 1: Fractured Tales and Colonial Traumas: Disfigured Stories in Kashmiri Short Fiction: PATRICK COLM HOGAN
EMPLOTTING THE NATION
EMOTION, TRAUMA, AND DISFIGURED NARRATIVES
FRACTURED TALES
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CHAPTER 2: No Center and No Margins: Narrativizing Return Journeys in Works by M. G. Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, and Rohinton Mistry: MARTIN LÖSCHNIGG&
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CHAPTER 3: The Legibility of Things: Objects and Public Histories in N. S. Madhavan’s Litanies of the Dutch Battery; UDAYA KUMAR
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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
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CHAPTER 5: A Contextual Rhetorical Analysis of Audiences in E. M. Forster’s Preface to Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable: SARAH COPLAND&
NARRATIVE, THE FLESH-AND-BLOOD READER, AND THE AUTHORIAL AUDIENCE
CLASSIC RHETORICAL APPEALS
MODELING RHETORICAL READING
CONTEXTUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF UNTOUCHABILITY
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CHAPTER 6: Ideological Ambivalence: A Reading of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: JAN ALBER
MULTIPLE NARRATIVE BEGINNINGS
THE NOVEL’S ALLEGORICAL STRUCTURE
THE NARRATOR’S TELEPATHY
THE THIRD SPACE AND THE MULTIFARIOUSNESS OF THE HUMAN SUBJECT
INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
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PART III: VOICE AND NARRATOR
NARRATING DISASTERS AND THEIR AFTERMATH
THE UNRULY NARRATIVE VOICE IN ANIMAL’S PEOPLE
CREATING UNEASE: THE IDEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NARRATEE
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CHAPTER 8: Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Towards a Critical, Culturalist Narratology: GRETA OLSON
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CHAPTER 9: The Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent”: Postcolonial and Rhetorical Perspectives: JAMES PHELAN&
A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO NARRATIVE COMMUNICATION
A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO RELIABLE CHARACTER NARRATION
A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO CHARACTER-CHARACTER DIALOGUE
LAHIRI’S SYNERGIES
MASK NARRATION
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PART IV: STRATEGIES, NARRATIVE AND POSTCOLONIAL
CHAPTER 10: Ideology, Dissidence, Subversion: A Narratological Perspective: MONIKA FLUDERNIK
IDEOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF NARRATOLOGY: A SURVEY
IDEOLOGIES IN THE SOUTH ASIAN NOVEL: THE IRONIES AND INDIRECTIONS OF POSTCOLONIALISM
CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 11: The Apocalypse That Will Never Be: Decolonization, Proleptic History, and Satire in India,c. 1946–51: BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA
STORIES OR ALMOST STORIES
APOCALYPSES AND “UNTIMELY” HISTORY
THE KINGDOM TO COME
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PART V: NARRATIVE, THEORY, IDEOLOGY
CRYSTALS OF TIME
FOCALIZATION AS ABSENCE
SEEING IT
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CHAPTER 13: The Addressee Function, or the Uses of Narratological Laity: Lessons of Khasak: DIVYA DWIVEDI
THE ADDRESSEE FUNCTION
THE AUTHORIAL AUDIENCE
THE LAY READER
IDEOLOGY AND THE ADDRESSEE FUNCTION
VOICES OF KHASAK AND DISPERSIVE FOCALIZATION
NARRATIVE EDUCATION, NARRATOLOGICAL EDUCATION
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CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: JAMES PHELAN, PETER J. RABINOWITZ, AND KATRA BYRAM, SERIES EDITORS