Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference

Acts of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting―an intense, temporary, and transformative encounter that defies rational understanding―as a metaphor for the kinds of ethical relationships that such works cultivate with their readers across boundaries of difference.
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