We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction 9780814214411

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Автор: Bekhta Natalya
Название: We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9780814214411
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
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ISBN-10: 081421441X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 218
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 23.07.2020
Серия: Theory interpretation narrativ
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 illustrations
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Collective storytelling in contemporary fiction
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Описание: Natalya Bekhtas We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shaped by the pronoun we, probing the tensions between individuality and collectivity in more recent narratives in English. Despite a growing interest in collective characters and the we-form in narratology and beyond, narrative theory has not yet done justice to the plural voice in fiction. In fact, the formulation of a poetics of collective expression needs clear theoretical conventions and a reassessment of established concepts in order to approach plural voices and agents on their own terms. We-Narratives addresses this demand by distinguishing between indicative and performative uses of the first-person plural pronoun in fiction and by identifying formal and rhetorical possibilities of stories told by group narrators.
What does it mean for a multitude to speak as one? How can a truly collective narrative voice be achieved or lost? What are its aesthetic and political repercussions? In order to tackle these questions, Bekhta reads a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka. She also focuses on narrative innovation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag. These narratives feature group protagonists and narrators and therefore offer insight into collective narrative discourse and focalization, construction of communal knowledge and unreliability. We-narrative, taken as a distinct storytelling form, illuminates fictions expressive potential and nuances models of narrative analysis.

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction, Bekhta Natalya