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Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / / Joanne Lipson Freed



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Autore: Freed Joanne Lipson <1983-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / / Joanne Lipson Freed Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm)
Disciplina: 813/.0873309
Soggetto topico: Ghosts in literature
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Ghost stories - History and criticism
Supernatural in literature
Commonwealth fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism
Transnationalism in literature
Difference (Philosophy) in literature
Memory in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Commonwealth fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Acts 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Haunting encounters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-1382-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910467306003321
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