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How to read now, essays, Elaine Castillo

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How to read now, essays, Elaine Castillo

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340)

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no index present

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essays

Main title

How to read now

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bibliography

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Elaine Castillo

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essays

Summary

How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture. Here, Castillo explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories

Table Of Contents

Author's note, or a Virgo clarifies things -- How to read now -- Reading teaches us empathy, and other fictions -- Honor the treaty -- The limits of white fantasy -- Main character syndrome -- "Reality is all we have to love" -- Autobiography in Asian film, or what we talk about when we talk about representation -- The children of Polyphemus

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