A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction

by Frederick Luis Aldama

Book Overview

Why 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?

By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725779
• ISBN13: 9780292725775
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"