Diversities in Ethnic Female Narratology

This book titled Diversities in Ethnic Female Narratology presents a survey of narratological diversification and tries to integrate narratological analyses with ethnic female narratives that are constructed with the act of narration. Ethnic female narratives, constituted from narrations are not only factual and fictional in writings but also in spoken language, and are reconstructed through individualistic stories emphasizing how particular ethnic female experiences have brought unpredictable turns and unexpected developments in diversifying ethnic female narratives. 180 As ethnic female narratives continue to be studied, other discourse styles and narrative patterns may emerge that refine our sense of what constitutes the 'norm' and which may or may not correlate with gender values in various ways. The relationship between gender and narrative structure is thus an indirect and mediated one, inextricably part of the interplay between content, form and context that culminates in the practices of interpreting meanings from a given text. Page 181) Feminist narratolgy seems to have moved some way along the road 'toward' feminist narratology but the question remains how far feminist narratology is still a relevant concern for postclassical narratology and beyond.Ethnic female narratolology would widen the scope narratology and could be further analyzed within other disciplines and theoretical frameworks. Both Bal (1999) and Warhol (2003) argue for feminist narratology's use within cultural studies. Indeed, there are obvious points of compatibility between narratological concerns such as focalization and theories of the gaze, spectatorship and audience that are of such relevance within the related subfield of feminist film theory. Postmodern feminist narratology has stressed the need to understand gender as a concept inseparable from female narrative but ethnic female narrative stress ethnic and gender as an inseparable aspect in ethnic female narratives.For example, the...