The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
David Palumbo-Liu is Professor and Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier; the editor of The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions; and a coeditor of Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.
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Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. When Otherness Overcomes Reason 27 2. Whose Story Is It? 67 3. Art: A Foreign Exchange 96 4. Pacific Ocean Feeling: Affect, Otherness, Mediation 133 Conclusion 179 Notes 197 Bibliography 207 Index 215
