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In Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction, 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. Narrative Paths reveals 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. Narrative Paths 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. Kai Mikkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Narrative Paths
• Subtitle: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction
• Author: KAI MIKKONEN
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780814252024
• ISBN: 9780814252024
• ID: 10916733
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 153 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 2016

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