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Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels
Paper, 332 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14979-2
$26.50
/ £18.50
January, 2010
Cloth, 332 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14978-5
$84.50
/ £58.50
"...a rich, learned study that explores the ethics of reading, avoids narrow theoretical adherence, develops a useful notion of the "crowded self," and delivers productive analyses of a wide variety of texts." — CHOICE
"Fiction Across Borders is an ambitious and timely study of contemporary Anglophone novels. Shameem Black advances new reading strategies for understanding emerging textual and narrative practices in novels, where authors cross a variety of borders—class-based and racial, ethnic, linguistic, and gendered—and represent figures on the other side of imagined borderlines. Her literary analyses are astute and insightful, and the theoretical arguments subtle and incisive." — B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk
"This fine book makes an extremely important and timely argument: that it is possible to enter sympathetically and constructively into the life of another, thus avoiding the failure, projection, and disguised domination that much contemporary criticism assumes to be the inevitable result of this enterprise." — Bruce Robbins, Columbia University