LEADER 04554nam 2200829 a 450 001 9910780968003321 005 20211005081539.0 010 $a0-8232-3507-6 010 $a0-8232-4715-5 010 $a1-282-69900-8 010 $a9786612699009 010 $a0-8232-3732-X 010 $a0-8232-3044-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237326 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008097 035 $a(MH)011975281-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11271643 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10478165 035 $a(PQKB)10513372 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239494 035 $a(OCoLC)647876525 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14935 035 $a(DE-B1597)555211 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237326 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365114 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269900 035 $a(OCoLC)748362007 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476685 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008097 100 $a20090206d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn ethics of betrayal$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literatures and culture /$fCrystal Parikh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 242 p. ) 225 1 $aAmerican Literatures Initiative 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3043-0 311 $a0-8232-3042-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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 Elia?n Gonza?lez and Wen Ho Lee -- Epilogue: the traitors in our midst. 330 $aIn An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and treason allegorize the position of this subject, beholden to the many others who embody the alterity of existence and whose demands upon the subject result in transgressions of intimacy and loyalty. In this first major comparative study of narratives by and about Asian Americans and Latinos, Parikh considers writings by Frank Chin, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, Eric Liu, Américo Parades, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as narratives about the persecution of Wen Ho Lee and the rescue and return of Elian González. By addressing the conflicts at the heart of filiality, the public dimensions of language in the constitution of minority "community," and the mercenary mobilizations of "model minority" status, An Ethics of Betrayal seriously engages the challenges of conducting ethnic and critical race studies based on the uncompromising and unromantic ideas of justice, reciprocity, and ethical society. 410 0$aAmerican Literatures Initiative 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aBetrayal in literature 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aBetrayal in literature. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 676 $a810.9/3529 700 $aParikh$b Crystal$01501436 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780968003321 996 $aAn ethics of betrayal$93728555 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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