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 encounters2477289UNINA02083nam 2200493 450 991082788590332120230126220734.01-4985-9304-6(CKB)4100000007188271(MiAaPQ)EBC5608756(EXLCZ)99410000000718827120190304d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTechnofeminist storiographies women, information technology, and cultural representation /by Kristine L. BlairLanham :Lexington Books,[2019]©20191 online resource (xxi, 137 pages) illustrationsCommunicating Gender1-4985-9303-8 Parallel Lives and the Recovery of Women in the (His)Story of Computing -- Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality in Early Computing Culture -- Bridging the Technological Gender Gap On and Off the Screen -- Gender Play and the Marketing of Misogyny -- Sustaining a Technofeminist Future for Women and Girls.This book recovers both historical and contemporary accounts of women's lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working in the tech industry today, juxtaposing those stories with larger cultural representations of women and technology.Communicating gender.Technology and womenTechnology and womenHistoryTechnology and womenSocial aspectsTechnologySociological aspectsHistory.fastTechnology and women.Technology and womenHistory.Technology and womenSocial aspects.TechnologySociological aspects.604.82Blair Kristine L.1610070MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827885903321Technofeminist storiographies3937638UNINA