Narrative and Becoming

Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes, Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Narr, 2015).

Narrative and Becoming takes everything we thought we knew about narrative theory, and places it in a startling new light. Ridvan Askin recasts storytelling both as speculation, exceeding the boundaries of the known, and as an upwelling of the nonhuman even in what we think of as a quintessentially human activity.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Differential Narratology1. Intensive Narration: Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters2. Narrating Sensation: Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 3. Sensational Realism: Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist4. Real Folds: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of LeavesConclusion: From the Becoming of Narrative to the Narrativity of BecomingWorks CitedIndex