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1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toward an Ethics of Border-Crossing Fiction -- 1. Crowded Self and Crowded Style -- 2. Everyday Sentiment -- 3. Ethnic Reversals -- 4. Middle Grounds -- 5. Challenging Language -- 6. Sacrificing the Self --- Postscript --- Appendix. |
| Summary |
Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "the Other." Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye toward several key contemporary novelists, she reveals how "border-crossing" fiction represents socially diverse groups without resorting to stereotype, idealization, or other forms of imaginative constraint. Focusing on the work of J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ruth Ozeki, Charles Johnson, Gish Jen, and Rupa Bajwa, Black introduces an interpretative lens that captures the ways in which these authors envision an ethics of representing social difference. They not only offer sympathetic portrayals of the lives of others but also detail the processes of imagining social difference. Whether depicting the multilingual worlds of South and Southeast Asia, the exportation of American culture abroad, or the racial tension of postapartheid South Africa, these transcultural representations explore social and political hierarchies in constructive ways. Boldly confronting the orthodoxies of recent literary criticism, Fiction Across Borders builds upon such seminal works as Edward Said's Orientalism and offers a provocative new study of the late twentieth-century novel. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Minority authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth fiction (English) |
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Other (Philosophy) in literature.
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Other (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
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Difference (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231520614 0231520611 (DLC) 2009017743 (OCoLC)320352431 |
| ISBN |
9780231520614 (electronic book) |
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0231520611 (electronic book) |
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1283260999 |
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9781283260992 |
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9780231149785 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231149786 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231149792 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231149794 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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