Race and Form: Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography - Couverture souple

Dejin, Xu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3039110039 ISBN 13 : 9783039110032

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2007

Synopsis

This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of "how" a story is presented.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Dejin Xu, Professor of English, obtained his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2003 and is now doing post doctoral studies at Beijing Normal University. He has published over 20 essays on English and American literature and auto-/biography studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3039110039
• ISBN 13: 9783039110032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne