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Not a Big Deal - Narrating to Unsettle (Hardcover)
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Not a Big Deal - Narrating to Unsettle (Hardcover)
Series: Frontiers of Narrative
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Not a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a
moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or
rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize
“defamiliarizing texts” as a category, how might texts still
work toward the goals of defamiliarization? When readers refuse to
grapple with texts that might shock them or disrupt their extant
views about politics, race, or even narrative itself, how can texts
elicit real engagement? This study draws from philosophy,
narratology, social neuroscience, critical theory, and numerous
other disciplines to read texts ranging from novels and short
stories to graphic novels, films, and fiction broadcasted and
podcasted—all of which enact curious strategies of disruption
while insisting that they do no such thing. Following a model
traceable to Toni Morrison’s criticism and short fiction, texts
by Kyle Baker, Scott Brown, Percival Everett, Daniel Handler, David
Robert Mitchell, Jordan Peele, and Colson Whitehead suggest new
strategies for unsettling the category-based perceptions behind
what Everett calls “the insidious colonialist reader’s eye
which infects America.” Not a Big Deal examines problems in our
perception of the world and of texts and insists we do the same.
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Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Frontiers of Narrative |
Release date: |
July 2021 |
Authors: |
Paul Ardoin
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
318 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-2195-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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LSN: |
1-4962-2195-8 |
Barcode: |
9781496221957 |
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