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The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (Frontiers of Narrative) by James, Erin;Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad;Okri, Ben;Saro-Wiwa, Ken;Selvon, Samuel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to compare the world of a text to other possible worlds, and by highlighting the power of narrative to immerse readers in new and unfamiliar environments. Focusing on the work of writers from Trinidad and Nigeria, such as Sam Selvon and Ben Okri, __The Storyworld Accord__ investigates and compares the storyworlds of nonrealist and postmodern postcolonial texts to show how such narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment, bringing together these narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode that Erin James calls econarratology. Arguing that postcolonial ecocriticism, like ecocritical studies, has tended to neglect imaginative representations of the environment in postcolonial literatures, James suggests that readings of storyworlds in p

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Author

James, Erin;Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad;Okri, Ben;Saro-Wiwa, Ken;Selvon, Samuel

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781120047014

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History