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Narratology and Ideology:
Encounters between Narrative Theory and Postcolonial Criticism

Edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen & Richard Walsh

Introduction

Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen & Richard Walsh

NARRATIVE IN QUESTION

1.     Fractured Tales and Colonial Traumas: The Disfiguring of Story Prototypes in Kashmiri Short Fiction
Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut)

2.     No Centre and No Margins: Narrativizing Postcolonial Migration and Travel in Works by Michael Ondaatje, Rohinton Mistry and M. G. Vassanji
Martin Löschnigg (University of Graz)

3.     Communicative and Cultural Memories in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Jarmila Mildorf (University of Paderborn)

4.     The Legibility of Things: Objects and Public Histories in N. S. Madhavan’s Litanies of the Dutch Battery
Udaya Kumar (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi)

ZONES OF NARRATIVE (para-, meta-, intra-)

5.     Metanarrative Signs in Ousmane Sembène’s God’s Bits of Wood and Emancipation
Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania)

6.     Protection and Patronage? Highjacking and Interception? Preface-Text and Author-Reader Relations in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and E. M. Forster’s Preface
Sarah Copland (Grant MacEwan University)

7.     Minds and Narration in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

VOICE

8.     Focalisation: Silent and Silenced Ideology
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)

9.     Narrative Voices and the Negotiation of Power Structures in Indra Sinha’s The Death of Mr Love and Animal’s People
Marion Gymnich (University of Bonn)

NARRATOR

10.   The Indirections of Reliable Narration: Voice and Migration in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent”
James Phelan (Ohio State University)

11.   The Legend of W. G. Karunasena: Nationalist Googlies and Drunken Narration in Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chinaman
Claire Westall (University of York)

12.   Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Moshin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Greta Olson (University of Giessen)

STRATEGIES NARRATIVE AND POSTCOLONIAL

13.   Strategies of Criticizing and Subverting the Colonial Worldview in Selected Fiction by South Asian and British Authors
Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg)

14.   The Apocalypse That Will Never Be: Decolonization and Satire
Baidik Bhattacharya (University of Delhi)

NARRATIVE ANALYSIS: THEORY, IDEOLOGY

15.   A Cognitive Approach to Multiperspectivity as a Key to Ideology and Intersectional Identities in Meera Syal’s Life isn’t all ha ha hee hee
Vera Nünning (Heidelberg University) & Ansgar Nünning (University of Giessen)

16.   What Might Narratology and the Brain Sciences Say About Postcolonial Theory?
Frederick Luis Aldama (Ohio State University)

17.   Pedagogy and Narratological Laity: The Crisis of Teaching in the Novels of O. V. Vijayan
Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

 

For the full book proposal, including abstracts, see Narratology & Ideology (PDF , 207kb)