TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikkonen,Kai
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Narrative Paths : : African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction / 
T2  - Theory and interpretation of narrative
SN  - 9780814273760
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Africa ; In literature
KW  - Travelers' writings, European ; History and criticism
KW  - European fiction ; History and criticism
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French ; bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record; Open Access
N2  - "In Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, Kai Mikkonen argues that early twentieth-century European travel writing, journal keeping, and fiction converged and mutually influenced each other in ways that inform current debates about the fiction-nonfiction distinction. Turning to narratives set in sub-Saharan Africa, Mikkonen identifies five main dimensions of interplay between fiction and nonfiction: the experiential frame of the journey, the redefinition of the language and objective of description, the shared cultural givens and colonial notions concerning sub-Saharan Africa, the theme of narrativisation, and the issue of virtual genres. Narrative Paths reveals the important role that travel played as a frame in these modernist fictions as well as the crucial ways that nonfiction travel narratives appropriated fictional strategies. Narrative Paths contributes to debates in narratology and rhetorical narrative theory about the fiction-nonfiction distinction. With chapters on a wide range of modernist authors-from Pierre Loti, Andre; Gide, Michel Leiris, and Georges Simenon to Blaise Cendrars, Louis-Ferdinand Ce;line, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)-Mikkonen's study also contributes to postcolonial approaches to these authors, examining issues of representation, narrative voice, and authority in narratives about colonial Africa"
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/38735/
ER  -