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The Storyworld Accord - Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (Hardcover)
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The Storyworld Accord - Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Frontiers of Narrative
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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 postcolonial texts
helps narrative theorists and ecocritics better consider the ways
in which culture, ideologies, and social and environmental issues
are articulated in narrative forms and structures, while also
helping postcolonial scholars more fully consider the environment
alongside issues of political subjectivity and sovereignty.
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