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Author:

Eils, Colleen G. author.

Title:

The politics of privacy in contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American metafictions / Colleen G. Eils.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Privacy in literature.
Politics and literature--United States.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--Asian American authors.
American fiction--Hispanic American authors.
American fiction--Minority authors.
English fiction.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Politics and literature.
Privacy in literature.
United States.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.

Contents:

Ethnographic surveillance and the limits of looking -- Omniscient surveillance and the politics of visibility after 9/11 -- Selling/out and the commodification of difference -- Textual archives and anti-documentary desire.

Summary:

"Explores contemporary metafictions by writers of color and Indigenous writers, such as Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Treuer, Monique Truong, Rigoberto González, Nam Le, and Stephen Graham Jones, and how they engage visibility, privacy, and access in relation to a post-9/11 US and histories of racial and colonial politics"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0814214223
9780814214220

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142526990

LCCN:

2020011497

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)