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An Ethics of Reading considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas. With chapters focused on important American novelists including Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, the book works to situate novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another. From those intertextual conversations, it draws conclusions about how fiction functions as testimony and the ways that readers might work to ethically respond to the testimonial features of

Multiculturalism in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Minorities as a theme in literature

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"Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, it interrogates the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. The books international group of contributors covers a wide range of primary texts that belong to the literary traditions of Latinx, African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American communities. They demonstrate that paying attention to the formal features of these texts changes our understanding of narrative theory and that narrative theories can help us to think about their representations of time and space, the narration of trauma and other emotional memories, and the importance of literary meta-paratexts, genre structures, and author functions"--

American literature --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Critical race theory. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism.

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"Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, it interrogates the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. The book's international group of contributors covers a wide range of primary texts that belong to the literary traditions of Latinx, African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American communities. They demonstrate that paying attention to the formal features of these texts changes our understanding of narrative theory and that narrative theories can help us to think about their representations of time and space, the narration of trauma and other emotional memories, and the importance of literary meta-paratexts, genre structures, and author functions"--

American literature --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Critical race theory. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism.

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Fiction --- Globalization in literature. --- Culture and globalization. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization --- History and criticism.

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The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.

American literature --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Paratext. --- Authorship. --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Books --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Criticism, Textual. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Postcolonialism.