An Ethics of Betrayal : : The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture / / Crystal Parikh.
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: An Ethics of Betrayal
- 2. Late Arrivals: An Ethics of Betrayal in Racial and National Formation
- 3. Accidents and Obligations: Minority Neoconservatives and U. S. Racial Discourse
- 4. Ethnic America Undercover: The Intellectual and Minority Discourse
- 5. The Passion: The Betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee
- Epilogue: The Traitors in Our Midst
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index