Narrative paths : African travel in modern fiction and nonfiction /

"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....

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Main Author: Mikkonen, Kai (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Series:Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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505 0 0 |g Introduction.  |t Factual Places and Fictional Routes --  |g Part I.  |t Narrating and Describing West Africa.  |g 1.  |t The Enchanted Arrival : Passage into West Africa in the Travel Writings of Blaise Cendrars, André Gide, and Graham Greene --  |g 2.  |t The Rhetoric of the Mad African Forest in Joseph Conrad, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Graham Greene --  |g 3.  |t Travel Narrative between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence in Graham Greene's Journey Without Maps --  |g Part II.  |t Travel Writing and the Novel.  |g 4.  |t The Immediacy of Reading : André Gide's Travel Fact and Travel Fictions --  |g 5.  |t The Incongruous Worlds of Evelyn Waugh's Ethiopia --  |g 6.  |t A Critique of the African Picturesque in Georges Simenon's Travel Reportages and Novels --  |g Part III.  |t Inventions of Life Narrative.  |g 7.  |t Virtual Genres in Pierre Loti's and Joseph Conrad's African Travel Diaries and Fiction --  |g 8.  |t Out of Europe : The African Palimpsest in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantôme --  |g 9.  |t Africanist Paradoxes of Storytelling in Karen Blixen's Out of Africa --  |t In Conclusion : Fiction, Colonial Travel Narrative, and the Allegorist. 
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