04527nam 2200829 a 450 991082204980332120211005081539.00-8232-3507-60-8232-4715-51-282-69900-897866126990090-8232-3732-X0-8232-3044-910.1515/9780823237326(CKB)2520000000008097(MH)011975281-6(SSID)ssj0000431967(PQKBManifestationID)11271643(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431967(PQKBWorkID)10478165(PQKB)10513372(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021247(MiAaPQ)EBC3239494(OCoLC)647876525(MdBmJHUP)muse14935(DE-B1597)555211(DE-B1597)9780823237326(Au-PeEL)EBL3239494(CaPaEBR)ebr10365114(CaONFJC)MIL269900(OCoLC)748362007(MiAaPQ)EBC476685(Au-PeEL)EBL476685(EXLCZ)99252000000000809720090206d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAn ethics of betrayal the politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literatures and culture /Crystal Parikh1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20091 online resource (xi, 242 p. )American Literatures InitiativeBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-3043-0 0-8232-3042-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.Introduction: an ethics of betrayal -- Late arrivals: an ethics of betrayal in racial and national formation -- Accidents and obligations: minority neoconservatives and U.S. racial discourse -- Ethnic America undercover: the intellectual and minority discourse -- The passion: the betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee -- Epilogue: the traitors in our midst.In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and treason allegorize the position of this subject, beholden to the many others who embody the alterity of existence and whose demands upon the subject result in transgressions of intimacy and loyalty. In this first major comparative study of narratives by and about Asian Americans and Latinos, Parikh considers writings by Frank Chin, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, Eric Liu, Américo Parades, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as narratives about the persecution of Wen Ho Lee and the rescue and return of Elian González. By addressing the conflicts at the heart of filiality, the public dimensions of language in the constitution of minority "community," and the mercenary mobilizations of "model minority" status, An Ethics of Betrayal seriously engages the challenges of conducting ethnic and critical race studies based on the uncompromising and unromantic ideas of justice, reciprocity, and ethical society.American Literatures InitiativeAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcBetrayal in literatureEthics in literatureComparative literatureRace relations in literatureAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Betrayal in literature.Ethics in literature.Comparative literature.Race relations in literature.810.9/3529Parikh Crystal1618864MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822049803321An ethics of betrayal3950825UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress