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D.H. Lawrence, travel and cultural difference
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ISBN: 1403900698 Year: 2004 Publisher: Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This study of Lawrence's travel writings is the first book-length study to approach the subject with reference to contemporary post-colonial theory. Focusing on the writings of 1921-25, the period when Lawrence was most intensely engaged in travel, it includes chapters on Sea and Sardinia, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and the essays and stories inspired by Lawrence's experience of the New World.


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Imaginationen des Anderen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3447046317 Year: 2002 Volume: 97 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag

A sense of wonder : Samuel R. Delany, race, identity, and difference
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ISBN: 0819566896 0819566888 Year: 2004 Publisher: Middletown Wesleyan University Press

Proceed with caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas
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ISBN: 0674536606 0674536584 9780674536586 9780674536609 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,

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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 for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity-to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas-is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortazar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchu's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect-warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism. -- Book cover.

The mirror and the killer-queen : otherness in literary language
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ISBN: 0253210518 0253330378 Year: 1996 Volume: 18 Publisher: Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press

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