{"product_id":"the-deliverance-of-others-reading-literature-in-a-global-age-9780822352693","title":"The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Deliverance of Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing?\u003cp\u003eThe influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and others-ideas of rationality, the family, the body, and affect-become less stable as they try to accommodate more radical types of otherness. For Palumbo-Liu, the reading of literature is an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Palumbo-Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822352693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Palumbo-Liu is Professor and Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAsian\/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e; the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions\u003c\/i\u003e; and a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eImmanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198604685427,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7e3e93b0-feb1-4312-84d1-ebee7c067af5.jpg?v=1656079230","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-deliverance-of-others-reading-literature-in-a-global-age-9780822352693","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}