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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 argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation of responsibility to the Other. Episodes of betrayal and treason allegorize the position of this subject, beholden to the many others who embody the alterity of existence and whose demands upon the subject result in transgressions of intimacy and loyalty. In this first major comparative study of narratives by and about Asian Americans and Latinos, Parikh considers writings by Frank Chin, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, Eric Liu, Américo Parades, and Richard Rodriguez, as well as narratives about the persecution of Wen Ho Lee and the rescue and return of Elian González. By addressing the conflicts at the heart of filiality, the public dimensions of language in the constitution of minority "community," and the mercenary mobilizations of "model minority" status, An Ethics of Betrayal seriously engages the challenges of conducting ethnic and critical race studies based on the uncompromising and unromantic ideas of justice, reciprocity, and ethical society.

Race relations in literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Betrayal in literature. --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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American literature --- Betrayal in literature --- Comparative literature --- Ethics in literature --- Race relations in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc

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Crystal Parikh contends that unlike humanitarianism, which views its objects as victims, human rights provide avenues for the creation of political subjects. Affiliating transnational works of American literature with decolonization, socialist, and other political struggles in the global south, she illuminates a human rights critique of idealized American rights and freedoms that have been globalized in the twenty-first century.

American literature --- Human rights in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- History.

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Littérature américaine --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- Histoire et critique --- American literature --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique.