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Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries Difference
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Freed points out how such works as Toni Morrison's
, Leslie Marmon Silko's
, and Arundhati Roy's
strike a delicate balance between empathy and alterity. Their engaging narratives, Freed argues, bring unfamiliar characters and distant settings to life for readers who encounter them as "other," but they also highlight the limits of fiction, holding in check the impulse to colonize another's experience with one's own.
is a sensitive and perceptive application of theory to real-world concerns. It draws together the fields of postcolonial fiction and narrative ethics and suggests original modes of engagement between readers and books that promise new ways of looking at the world.