Proceed with Caution,: When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

by Doris Sommer

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Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674536606

ISBN13:9780674536609

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:365 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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