{"product_id":"a-users-guide-to-postcolonial-and-latino-borderland-fiction-2","title":"A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating \"real life\"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common—if anything?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's \u003ccite\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/cite\u003e, Amitav Ghosh's \u003ccite\u003eThe Glass Palace\u003c\/cite\u003e, Zadie Smith's \u003ccite\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/cite\u003e, and Hari Kunzru's \u003ccite\u003eThe Impressionist\u003c\/cite\u003e, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In \u003ccite\u003eA User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction\u003c\/cite\u003e, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Frederick Luis Aldama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572763066550,"sku":"9780292784338","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_395c6434-c613-40fd-b457-70ca949cc338.jpg?v=1746711854","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/a-users-guide-to-postcolonial-and-latino-borderland-fiction-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}