How to read now : essays /
Elaine Castillo.
- pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--
0593489632 (hardcover) 9780593489635 (hardcover)
2022002699
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