Buchreihe der ANGLIA/ ANGLIA Book Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface: Read, Again -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature -- Cultural Sign Systems, Strategic Positivism, and Conceptual Tropes of Liminality -- What's in a Name? Paradigm of Representativeness, Autobiographical Fallacy, and Professional Culturalist Economy -- Rereading Form: Transpositions and the Postethnic Literary -- 1 Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form -- The Editorial Paratext: Whose Text and What Kind of Text? -- Different Frames, Different Titles, Different Readings -- Resisting Receptive Fixation and Representative Functionality -- Musical Transpositions: Variations of Appropriations -- Stretching the Formula: Postethnic Textuality, Authorial Positionality, and Reception -- Literary Friendship and the Ethics of Reading for Form -- Back to Genre: Essay and Literary Manifesto -- 2 Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker -- Reading Publics without Reading -- Walt Whitman and Literary Publics -- Copies, Readings, Transpositions -- The Scribe, Publishing, and Potentiality -- Literary Capital and Romanticist Reconciliation -- Reading Publics and Literary Citizenship -- 3 Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy -- Interviews, Intertexts, Genres -- Scenes of Arrival: Indeterminacy -- Painting to Photography: The Figurative and the Abstract -- Photographic Transpositions and Productive Nothingness -- Practices of Renaming and Postethnic Literary Becoming -- Coda - The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary -- Works Cited -- Index.