02192nam 2200505 450 991081650730332120230807205854.01-4438-8751-X(CKB)3710000000570243(EBL)4535055(MiAaPQ)EBC4535055(Au-PeEL)EBL4535055(CaPaEBR)ebr11216059(CaONFJC)MIL888169(OCoLC)940670612(EXLCZ)99371000000057024320160622h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAn ethics of reading interpretative strategies for contemporary multicultural American literature /by Sandra CoxNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2015.©20151 online resource (220 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-8101-5 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 Multiculturalism in literatureMinorities in literatureEthnic groups in literatureMulticulturalism in literature.Minorities in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.809.93352Cox Sandra1701682MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816507303321An ethics of reading4085627UNINA