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• Reconstructing Asian American Male Masculinity in American Born Chinese.

  Author:Hyun-Joo YooFrom:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20227,866 words Article Among graphic narratives by Asian American authors, including Derek Kirk's Same Difference & Other Stories (2003), Jason Shiga's Bookhunter (2007), Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings (2007), and G.B. Tran's Vietnamerica: A...

• Aesthetics of Wounding: Strategies of Self Repression in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.

  Author:Meera JagannathanFrom:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 202210,026 words Article Critics have noted how Lucy Snowe, the unreliable, unlikeable protagonist of Charlotte Bronte's most mature novel, Villette (1853), resorts to strategies of self-repression so as to counter the "acoustic stress"...

• Making (Narrative) Sense: Introspection and Retrospection in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

  Authors:Florian Zitzelsberger and Melanie KreitlerFrom:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20229,069 words Article In order to make sense of narrative, we find ourselves drawn to a text's beginning and ending as a way of following or understanding its trajectory. As Brian Richardson notes, there is "conceptual and emotional power in...

• Hush and Listen!: Unspeakable Narrative Voices and the Deafened Moment in Virginia Woolf's The Years.

  Author:Chloe LeungFrom:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 202211,804 words Article "... my intention in The Years may be not so entirely muted and obscured as I feared" (A Writer's Diary 268). "[T]he certainty of failure," in Virginia Woolf's own words, hovered over the composition of The Years...

• Following Leaders: Deconstructing the Narrator, Deposition, and Figureheads of "Benito Cereno".

  Author:Christopher MorrisFrom:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20229,980 words Article In its anticipation of contemporary debates over American racism, "Benito Cereno" (1855) deserves attention from all critical perspectives. At the same time--and despite the occasional mention of deconstruction or...