Narrative paths : African travel in modern fiction and nonfiction /

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"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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mikkonen, Kai (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Temas:
Postcolonialism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
European fiction > History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, European > History and criticism.
Travel writing > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History and criticism.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Narration.
Roman européen > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de voyageurs européens > Histoire et critique.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Afrique subsaharienne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European fiction
Literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Travel writing
Travelers' writings, European
Africa, Sub-Saharan > In literature.
Afrique subsaharienne > Dans la littérature.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Factual Places and Fictional Routes
  • Part I. Narrating and Describing West Africa. 1. The Enchanted Arrival : Passage into West Africa in the Travel Writings of Blaise Cendrars, André Gide, and Graham Greene
  • 2. The Rhetoric of the Mad African Forest in Joseph Conrad, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Graham Greene
  • 3. Travel Narrative between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence in Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps
  • Part II. Travel Writing and the Novel. 4. The Immediacy of Reading : André Gide's Travel Fact and Travel Fictions
  • 5. The Incongruous Worlds of Evelyn Waugh's Ethiopia
  • 6. A Critique of the African Picturesque in Georges Simenon's Travel Reportages and Novels
  • Part III. Inventions of Life Narrative. 7. Virtual Genres in Pierre Loti's and Joseph Conrad's African Travel Diaries and Fiction
  • 8. Out of Europe : The African Palimpsest in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantôme
  • 9. Africanist Paradoxes of Storytelling in Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
  • In Conclusion : Fiction, Colonial Travel Narrative, and the Allegorist.

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