An ethics of reading : interpretative strategies for contemporary multicultural American literature / by Sandra Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Sandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8751-X

OCLC:

940670612