![]() | An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Betrayal in literature; Ethics in literature; Literature Comparative; Race relations in literature; 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. Parikh Crystal : CRYSTAL PARIKH is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of English at New York University. |
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