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Cox Sandra
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Titolo: |
An ethics of reading : interpretative strategies for contemporary multicultural American literature / / by Sandra Cox
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Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809.93352 |
Soggetto topico: | Multiculturalism in literature |
Minorities in literature | |
Ethnic groups in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | An ethics of reading ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4438-8751-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816507303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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