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Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution.

In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism.

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Title: MUSIC CD PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT IMUS RANCH.(Local News)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) (Newspaper)
Date: August 20, 2008
Publisher: The Santa Fe New Mexican
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In 1943, Herb Kriloff, by then a Lieutenant, was ordered to Orange, Texas, to assume command of one of the Navy's new Destroyer Escorts, the USS Scroggins (DE799). Already experienced in combat on other ships in the Asian theatre, Kriloff still had much to learn. The Navy was just then introducing new radar and sonar technology aimed at battling the German's frighteningly efficient U-boat fleet, and Kriloff was left to deal with a crew of newly-trained boys fresh off the farm..
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