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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b11066368.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Rhetoric of particularism -- Traps of translation. Freely and equally yours, Walt Whitman ; Mosaic and mestizo: bilingual love from Hebreo to Garcilaso ; Cortez in the courts -- Taking a life. No secrets for Rigoberta ; Hot pursuit and cold rewards of Mexicanness ; Beloved knows Holocausts beyond telling -- White writing on dark subjects. Who can tell? Villaverdes' blanks ; Grammar trouble for Cortázar ; About face: the talker turns toward Peru -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 365 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Proceed with caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas.".
- catalog identifier "0674536584 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0674536606 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Proceed with caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Proceed with caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas.".
- catalog subject "860.9/98 21".
- catalog subject "American literature Minority authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Difference (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "PQ7081 .S687 1999".
- catalog subject "Spanish American literature Minority authors History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rhetoric of particularism -- Traps of translation. Freely and equally yours, Walt Whitman ; Mosaic and mestizo: bilingual love from Hebreo to Garcilaso ; Cortez in the courts -- Taking a life. No secrets for Rigoberta ; Hot pursuit and cold rewards of Mexicanness ; Beloved knows Holocausts beyond telling -- White writing on dark subjects. Who can tell? Villaverdes' blanks ; Grammar trouble for Cortázar ; About face: the talker turns toward Peru -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.".
- catalog title "Proceed with caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas / Doris Sommer.".
- catalog type "text".