Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
Contents:
What Asian American studies and narrative theory can do for each other / Sue J. Kim -- Narrative form, ideal readerships, and Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's The Autobiography of a brown buffalo / Christopher Gonzalez -- Narrative disidentification: beginnings in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Catherine Romagnolo -- Narrative process and cultural identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Stephen Spencer -- Black world/white world: narrative worldmaking in Jim Crow America / Blake Wilder -- Postblack unnatural narrative--or, is the implied author of Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier black? / Christian Schmidt -- The presumptions of whiteness in Ann Petry's Country place / Stephanie Li -- "One silence had led to another": strategic paralipsis and a non-normative narrator in Bitter in the mouth / Patrick E. Horn -- Rhetorical narrative theory and Native American literature: the antimimetic in Thomas King's Green grass, running water / Joseph Coulombe -- Narration on the lower frequencies in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. -- Race as interpretive lens: focalization and critique of globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Sexy" / Shaun Morgan -- Race, cosmopolitanism, and the complexities of belonging in the Open city: Teju Cole's transcontinental aesthetics / Claudia Breger -- Caribbean book nerds: recentering to possible worlds in Judith Cofer and Junot Diaz / Deborah Noel -- Homo-narrative capture, racial proximity, and the queer Latino child / Roy Perez -- Afterword: Intersections and future connections / Jennifer Ann Ho.
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