The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions - Couverture souple

Eils, Colleen G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814256007 ISBN 13 : 9780814256008

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions is the first book-length study to approach contemporary issues of racialized visibility and privacy through narrative form. Using a formal maneuver, narrative privacy, Colleen G. Eils analyzes how writers of contemporary metafictions explicitly withhold stories from readers to illuminate and theorize the politics of privacy in a post–9/11 US context. As a formal device and reading strategy, narrative privacy has two primary critical interests: affirming the historically political nature of visibility, particularly for people of color and indigenous people, and theorizing privacy as a political assertion of power over representation and material vulnerability.

Eils breaks strict disciplinary silos by putting visibility/surveillance studies, ethnic studies, and narrative studies in conversation with one another. Eils also puts texts in the Native, Latinx, and Asian American literary canon in conversation with each other. She focuses on texts by Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Treuer, Monique Truong, Rigoberto González, Nam Le, and Stephen Graham Jones that call into question our positions as readers and critics. In deliberately and self-consciously evading readers through the form of their fiction, these writers seize privacy as a political tool for claiming and wielding power in both representational and material registers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Colleen G. Eils is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of the West Point Writing Program at the United States Military Academy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814256007
• ISBN 13: 9780814256008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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