04212nam 2200769 450 991046730600332120200520144314.01-5017-1382-510.7591/9781501713828(CKB)4100000001039801(OCoLC)983786521(MdBmJHUP)muse65570(DLC) 2017018722(MiAaPQ)EBC5123419(DE-B1597)496493(DE-B1597)9781501713828(Au-PeEL)EBL5123419(CaPaEBR)ebr11464601(CaONFJC)MIL1042208(EXLCZ)99410000000103980120171205h20172017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHaunting encounters the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference /Joanne Lipson FreedIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (pages cm)1-5017-1376-0 1-5017-1383-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Figures of Estrangement -- 2. Telling the Traumas of History -- 3. Invisible Victims, Visible Absences -- 4. Haunting Futures and the Dystopian Imagination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexActs of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting-an intense, temporary, and transformative encounter that defies rational understanding-as a metaphor for the kinds of ethical relationships that such works cultivate with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed points out how such works as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things strike a delicate balance between empathy and alterity. Their engaging narratives, Freed argues, bring unfamiliar characters and distant settings to life for readers who encounter them as "other," but they also highlight the limits of fiction, holding in check the impulse to colonize another's experience with one's own. Haunting Encounters is a sensitive and perceptive application of theory to real-world concerns. It draws together the fields of postcolonial fiction and narrative ethics and suggests original modes of engagement between readers and books that promise new ways of looking at the world.Ghosts in literatureAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismGhost storiesHistory and criticismSupernatural in literatureCommonwealth fiction (English)21st centuryHistory and criticismTransnationalism in literatureDifference (Philosophy) in literatureMemory in literaturePsychic trauma in literatureCommonwealth fiction (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Ghosts in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Ghost storiesHistory and criticism.Supernatural in literature.Commonwealth fiction (English)History and criticism.Transnationalism in literature.Difference (Philosophy) in literature.Memory in literature.Psychic trauma in literature.Commonwealth fiction (English)History and criticism.813/.0873309Freed Joanne Lipson1983-1048784MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467306003321Haunting encounters2477289UNINA