{"product_id":"narrative-paths-kai-mikkonen-9780814252024","title":"Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNarrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. Turning to narratives set in sub-Saharan Africa, Mikkonen identifies five main dimensions of interplay between fiction and nonfiction: the experiential frame of the journey, the redefinition of the language and objective of description, the shared cultural givens and colonial notions concerning sub-Saharan Africa, the theme of narrativisation, and the issue of virtual genres. \u003ci\u003eNarrative Paths \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the important role that travel played as a frame in these modernist fictions as well as the crucial ways that nonfiction travel narratives appropriated fictional strategies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrative Paths\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to debates in narratology and rhetorical narrative theory about the fiction-nonfiction distinction. With chapters on a wide range of modernist authors--from Pierre Loti, André Gide, Michel Leiris, and Georges Simenon to Blaise Cendrars, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)--Mikkonen's study also contributes to postcolonial approaches to these authors, examining issues of representation, narrative voice, and authority in narratives about colonial Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kai Mikkonen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814252028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Kai Mikkonen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483714203903,"sku":"9780814252024","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b19a4781-5672-4d2c-857e-a0074fe4abc3.jpg?v=1778040178","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrative-paths-kai-mikkonen-9780814252024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}