Narrative, January 2006

Narrative is the official journal of The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, the association for scholars interested in narrative. Narrative's broad range of scholarship includes the English, American, and European novel, nonfiction narrative, film, and narrative as used in performance art.

Publisher: The Ohio State University Press

Volume 14, Number 1, January 2006

CONTENTS:

Phelan, James, 1951-, Editor's Column: Form, Politics, and the Recent History of Narrative Theory

Homans, Margaret, 1952-, Adoption Narratives, Trauma, and Origins

Battersby, James L., Narrativity, Self, and Self-Representation

Klaver, Elizabeth, Possible Worlds, Mathematics, and John Mighton's Possible Worlds 

Palmeri, Frank, Conjectural History and Satire: Narrative as Historical Argument from Mandeville to Malthus (and Foucault)

Dialogue:

Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953-, Genre as World System: Epic and Novel on Four Continents

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, World Systems & the Creole