Abstract
In the wake of innumerable and insightful studies on the unnatural narratology at home and abroad, it develops into a post-classical narratology that is comparable to female narratology, rhetoric narratology, and cognitive narratology. Taking the native American writer Sherman Alexie’s Flight as its central concern, the essay attends to explore the unnaturalness of the novel and further elaborates on its thematic meaning. In Alexie’s Flight, as a post-9/11 fiction, its unnaturalness can be explored by such elements as unnatural storyworlds, unnatural minds and unnatural acts of narration. The intentional violation of conventional narration further highlights the hero’s crisis and reconstruction of his identity in the post-9/11 world changed with the miserable memory in his childhood, his sublimation from terrorism to pacifism during his time travel and the regain of love in his final foster family, which consequently contributes to the final change of his appellation from “Zits” to “Michael”.
Highlights
With the increasingly heat debates and studies on narratology, a wide variety of narrative theories are brought up mainly from four distinct theoretical perspectives such as rhetorical approach demonstrated by Jim Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz, feminist approach stressed by Robyn Warhol, psychological approach illustrated by David Herman and anti-mimetic approach held by Brian Richardson
With the increasing popularity of unnatural narratology, the essay attempts to explore the unnaturalness in Flight, which further interprets its variant themes with the link of the unnatural elements
As people are awake and alert to violence and terrorism in the post-9/11 world, more attentions must be paid to the root of and resolution to such kind of trauma
Summary
With the increasingly heat debates and studies on narratology, a wide variety of narrative theories are brought up mainly from four distinct theoretical perspectives such as rhetorical approach demonstrated by Jim Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz, feminist approach stressed by Robyn Warhol, psychological approach illustrated by David Herman and anti-mimetic approach held by Brian Richardson. The narrator Zits on the level of narrative discourse, as a character Zits or Zits-asincarnation on the level of story, shows the unnatural minds consisting in his unnatural memory, unnatural idea and unnatural reason, which account for Zits’s crisis and reconstruction of his identity.
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