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03367aam a2200469 a 4500 001 E7B1D3F0376E11E1999191C06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120105010528 008 090504s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009017743 020 $a 0231520611 (e-book) 020 $a 9780231520614 (e-book) 020 $a 0231149794 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780231149792 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0231149786 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780231149785 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)320352431 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d C#P $d YDXCP $d BWX $d MNY $d CDX $d ALAUL $d MIX $d DEBBG $d SILO 050 00 $a PS153.M56 $b B62 2010 050 00 $a PS153.M56 $b B62 2010 084 $a HP 1130 $2 rvk 084 $a HU 1691 $2 rvk 100 1 $a Black, Shameem, $d 1976- 245 1 $a Fiction across borders : $b imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels / $c Shameem Black. 246 30 $a Imagining the lives of others in late-twentieth-century novels. 260 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c c2010. 300 $a xii, 333 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Commonwealth fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Other (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Difference (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Ethics in literature. 941 $a 4 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214033733.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180117060604.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825050436.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20120410010803.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E7B1D3F0376E11E1999191C06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search