Name: The Craft of Post-Narratology
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The Craft of Post-Narratology

Edited By: Zeineb Derbali

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This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.

The collection of articles compiled in this volume ponder narratological aspects, elements, and features and examine the extent to which the coinage “post-narratology” is applicable…

The collection of articles compiled in this volume ponder narratological aspects, elements, and features and examine the extent to which the coinage “post-narratology” is applicable in contemporary literature, cultural studies, translation, etc. The contributors’ rethinking of narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion lead to significant implications as far as adherence to or departure from Western classical narratology is concerned. The notions of plot, storyline, point of view, voice, characters, narrators, and others, paradigmatically structured in the narratological classical model shaped by the Russian Formalists and polished by Tzvetan Todorov, Roland Barthes, and Gérard Genette, are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of written works in various fields.

Zeineb Derbali is a Tunisian university assistant and holds a PhD in English literature. She is coordinator of the English department at the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities in Sbeitla, Tunisia. She studied Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos (1985) in her MA dissertation titled “In the Deep of the Modernist Big Brain,” which was published in 2019. She has investigated Asian American literature through the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston in different published articles. She has explored the spectral’s agency of dis/order in comparative research on Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976) and The Fifth Book of Peace (2004), and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and A Mercy (2008). She has participated in national and international conferences about identity, trauma, and belonging in relation to the Chinese American diaspora.

Mykyta Steshenko, Said Dalhoumi, Sana Oueslati, Zeineb Derbali, Ilhem Issaoui, Amel ben Ahmad, Sadok Ladhibi, Fathi Bourmeche, Rihal Hami Chakroun