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Fiction across borders : imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels / / Shameem Black



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Autore: Black Shameem <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fiction across borders : imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels / / Shameem Black Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/920693
Soggetto topico: American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism
Other (Philosophy) in literature
Difference (Philosophy) in literature
Ethics in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Toward an Ethics of Border- Crossing Fiction -- 1 Crowded Self and Crowded Style -- 2 Everyday Sentiment -- 3 Ethnic Reversals -- 4 Middle Grounds -- 5 Challenging Language -- 6 Sacrificing the Self -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Theorists 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Fiction across borders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-26099-9
9786613260994
0-231-52061-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807147703321
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