{"product_id":"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. 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.\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKai Mikkonen\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki in Finland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of Ohio State UP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030680912112,"sku":"9780814252024","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814252024_p0.jpg?v=1763747026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814252024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}