Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology

Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Marijana Mikić is a PhD researcher on the FWF-funded project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Mario Grill is a PhD researcher on the FWF-funded project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

• Introduction: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American LiteraturesAlexa Weik von MossnerPART 1: Narrating Race and Ethnicity across Time and Space Indigenous Time / Indigenous Narratives: The Political Implications of Non-Linear Time in Contemporary Native Fiction James J. Donahue Time(s) of Race: Narrative Temporalities, Epistemic Storytelling, and the Human Species in Ted ChiangMatthias Klestil Polychronic Narration, Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief, and Mario Alberto Zambrano’s Lotería Mario Grill Whole New Worlds: An Exploration of Narrative Strategies Used in Afrodiasporic Speculative FictionMarlene D. Allen AhmedPART 2: Haunting Memories: Narrative, Race, and Emotion Emotions that Haunt: Attachment Relations in Lan Samantha Chang’s FictionW. Michelle Wang Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Marijana Mikić "There Were Strands of Darker Stories": Reading Third-Generation Holocaust Literature as MidrashStella Setka Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs Alexa Weik von MossnerPART 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Paratexts: Genre Structures and Author Functions Healing Narratives: Historical Representations in Latinx Young Adult LiteratureElizabeth Garcia Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony Patrick Colm Hogan Metaparatextual Satire in Percival Everett’s The Book of Training and Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice Derek C. Maus Author Functions, Literary Functions, and Racial Representations or What We Talk about When We Talk about Diversifying Narrative Studies Jennifer Ho