ABSTRACT
This chapter continues to deal with unnatural narrative across borders and unnatural narrative in national literatures other than English. With Zhiguai tales of the Six Dynasties in China as its central concern, it pursues four major goals: (1) to revisit the much debated conception of unnatural narrative and to call for a diachronic and transnational perspective, (2) to reveal the unnaturalness of the impossible storyworlds in Zhiguai tales by taking a close look at such unnatural elements as unnatural characters, unnatural space, and unnatural time at the local level, (3) to further examine the unnaturalness of this genre by investigating the storyworld boundary transgression and the ontological metalepsis at the global level, and (4) to go beyond the current naturalizing and unnaturalizing readings by proposing an ethical interpretive option.
