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Cancer made me a shallower person: A minoritarian story in comics 癌症让我变成了一个肤浅的人:一个漫画中的少数民族故事

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2019

P. Tzouva

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“Or even Frisian, yes. No, no”: The negotiation of space for a minority language in narratives by pre-service teachers “或者甚至是弗里斯兰语，是的。“不，不”:职前教师在叙事中对少数民族语言空间的谈判

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2022

S. Moenandar, Miruna Lucaci, J. Duarte

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Dirty politics: The stories of soap in South Africa 肮脏的政治:南非肥皂的故事

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2021

M. van der Waal

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Covert narrativity in contemporary poetry: English and German examples 当代诗歌中的隐晦叙事:英德范例

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2023

P. Hühn

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“The little links are broke”: Ethnocentrism and Englishness in contemporary British fiction “小连结断了”:当代英国小说中的种族中心主义与英国性

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2024

R. Eaglestone

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Yvonne Liebermann, Judith Rahn & Bettina Burger, eds. Nonhuman agencies in the twenty-first-century Anglophone novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. xiii+316 pp. ISBN: 9783030794415 伊冯娜·利伯曼，朱迪思·拉恩和贝蒂娜·伯格，编辑。21世纪英语小说中的非人类代理。Palgrave Macmillan, 2021。13 +316页。ISBN: 9783030794415

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2025

Kanjing He

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Narrating pain: The power of storytelling in Maryam Madjidi’s Marx et la poupée 叙述痛苦:玛丽亚姆·马吉迪的《马克思与人民》中讲故事的力量

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2018

J. den Toonder

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Introduction: Peripheral narratives, minority identities 导言:外围叙事，少数人身份

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2017

S. Moenandar, Alberto Godioli

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Conceptions of literary authorship in modern literary theories: history, issues, approaches 现代文论中的文学作者概念:历史、问题、途径

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2015

Mengchen Lang

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The road chronotope in rural colonial Philippines 菲律宾殖民地农村的道路时钟

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2022-2012

M. Reyes

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