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OverviewNarrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nandita Batra , Vartan P. MessierPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781847181145ISBN 10: 1847181147 Pages: 170 Publication Date: 13 February 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNandita Batra was born in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai), receiving a Bachelor's and Master's from the University of Delhi (India) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (New York). She is now Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, where she is also editor of Revista Atenea, the University's bilingual journal of humanities and social sciencesBorn in Geneva (Switzerland), Vartan P. Messier has taught Literature, Film, French and English in Europe and the U.S. as well as in Central America and the Caribbean. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Riverside. His research focuses on the critical discourses on modernity, modernism, and postmodernism in literature and the visual arts. Nandita and Vartan have collaborated on two other essay collections: Transgression and Taboo (2005) and This Watery World: Humans and the Sea (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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