Haunting Encounters : : The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference / / Joanne Lipson Freed.
Acts of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting—an intense, temporary, an...
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