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UNINA9910151735303321 |
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Positive train control : issues and economics for improved rail safety / / Rahul O. Salter, editor |
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New York : , : Nova Science Publishers, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
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Transportation issues, policies and R & D |
Safety and risk in society |
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Railroads - Automatic train control - United States |
Railroads - Safety measures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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UNINA9910798038203321 |
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Cox Sandra |
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An ethics of reading : interpretative strategies for contemporary multicultural American literature / / by Sandra Cox |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Multiculturalism in literature |
Minorities in literature |
Ethnic groups in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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An Ethics of Reading considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas. With chapters focused on important American novelists including Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, the book works to situate novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another. From those intertextual conversations, it draws conclusions about how fiction functions as testimony and the ways that readers might work to ethically respond to the testimonial features of |
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