Narrative Authority, Paratext, and Identity in R. F. Kuang's Yellowface.
In this paper, I use a narratological approach to analyse the use of metafiction, untrustworthy first-person narration, and paratext in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface (2023). The novel's self-referential highlighting of authorship as a constructed act of performance places it in the context of metafiction,...
| Publicado en: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 11 - 25 |
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