Palumbo-Liu The Deliverance of Others

Reading Literature in a Global Age
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9548-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palumbo-Liu, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. When Otherness Overcomes Reason 27

2. Whose Story Is It? 67

3. Art: A Foreign Exchange 96

4. Pacific Ocean Feeling: Affect, Otherness, Mediation 133

Conclusion 179

Notes 197

Bibliography 207

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor and Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier; the editor of The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions; and a coeditor of Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.