LEADER 04425nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910457470203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26099-9 010 $a9786613260994 010 $a0-231-52061-1 024 7 $a10.7312/blac14978 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051608 035 $a(OCoLC)763049621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10494979 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12243174 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10682409 035 $a(PQKB)11485671 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908676 035 $a(DE-B1597)458664 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948305 035 $a(OCoLC)1029823415 035 $a(OCoLC)1032677249 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969737 035 $a(OCoLC)1041991710 035 $a(OCoLC)1046622792 035 $a(OCoLC)1046997442 035 $a(OCoLC)1049610499 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878060 035 $a(OCoLC)979739470 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231520614 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908676 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10494979 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326099 035 $a(OCoLC)826476504 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051608 100 $a20090504d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFiction across borders$b[electronic resource] $eimagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels /$fShameem Black 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-14979-4 311 $a0-231-14978-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. Toward an Ethics of Border- Crossing Fiction -- $t1 Crowded Self and Crowded Style -- $t2 Everyday Sentiment -- $t3 Ethnic Reversals -- $t4 Middle Grounds -- $t5 Challenging Language -- $t6 Sacrificing the Self -- $tPostscript -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aTheorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "the Other." Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye toward several key contemporary novelists, she reveals how "border-crossing" fiction represents socially diverse groups without resorting to stereotype, idealization, or other forms of imaginative constraint. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ruth Ozeki, Charles Johnson, Gish Jen, and Rupa Bajwa, Black introduces an interpretative lens that captures the ways in which these authors envision an ethics of representing social difference. They not only offer sympathetic portrayals of the lives of others but also detail the processes of imagining social difference. Whether depicting the multilingual worlds of South and Southeast Asia, the exportation of American culture abroad, or the racial tension of postapartheid South Africa, these transcultural representations explore social and political hierarchies in constructive ways. Boldly confronting the orthodoxies of recent literary criticism, Fiction Across Borders builds upon such seminal works as Edward Said's Orientalism and offers a provocative new study of the late twentieth-century novel. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOther (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aDifference (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aEthics in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 676 $a810.9/920693 700 $aBlack$b Shameem$f1976-$01047209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457470203321 996 $aFiction across borders$92474645 997 $aUNINA