1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface: Read, Again V
3. Acknowledgements XIV
4. Contents XV
5. Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature 1
6. 1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form 40
7. 2. Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker 87
8. 3. Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy 133
9. Coda. The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary This study has explored the epistemological conditions 187
10. Works Cited 209
11. Index 221