The significance and narrative strategy of the Epic Historical Novel discovered via ‘text’ - About Ryu Ju-hyeon’s The Governer-General of Chosen and The Korean Empire -

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
Gi-don Hong
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Korean Empire

scholarly journals Cultural and Natural Roots of Puerto Rican Mestizaje in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Babett Rubóczki
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
Experimental Narrative

The paper explores the conversational orchestration of family anecdotes as a dominant experimental narrative strategy underlying Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré’s historical novel, The House on the Lagoon. The study reads Ferré’s narrative through Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of the dialogic nature of language to highlight the interplay between environmental and cultural images of hybridity. The close reading of this representative piece of US Caribbean literature elucidates how Ferré utilizes the dialogic form to contest the Puerto Rican cultural and national politics that tend to suppress and silence the nonwhite (black and indigenous) components of Puerto Rican identity.

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