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The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction

The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction

Dragas, Areti

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 082643990X
ISBN13: 9780826439901
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 25 2014
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study breaks new ground in the approach to reading contemporary literature by identifying a growing interest in storytelling. For the last thirty years contemporary fiction has been influenced by theoretical discourses, textuality and writing. Only since the rise of postcolonialism have academic critics been more overtly interested in stories, where high theory frameworks are less applicable. However, as we move through various contemporary contexts engaging with postcolonial identities and hybridity, to narratives of disability and evolutionary accounts of group and individual survival, a common feature of all is the centrality of story, which posits both the idea of survival and the passing on of traditions.

The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction closely examines this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading of six contemporary international novelists that are either about actual 'storytellers' or engage with the figure of the storyteller, revealing how death of the author has given birth to the storyteller.

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