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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nContributors\nForeword\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction Secrecy and community in twenty-first-century fiction\n Secrecy, literary form and the community of readers\n Communities of secrecy\n Secrecy, postcolonialism and democracy\n References\nPart One Secrecy, literary form and the community of readers\n 1 Secrecy and community in ergodic texts: Derrida, Ali Smith and the experience of form\n Modernism and the ergodic novel\n Derrida and the secret of literature\n How to be both: Secrecy and community\n References\n 2 Protective mimicry: Reflections on the novel today\n References\n 3 ‘Where all is known and nothing understood’: Narrative sequence and textual secrets in Toni Morrison’s Love\n Introduction\n Retrospective revelation, sequence and causality\n Ethical judgement and narrative reassessment\n Marine debris, textual secrets\n References\n 4 Challenging stereotypes of femininity through secrets in Alice Munro’s fiction\n Introduction\n Narrative and secrecy\n Alice Munro, feminism and beyond\n ‘Dimensions’\n ‘Free Radicals’\n ‘Child’s Play’\n Conclusions\n References\n 5 Zoë Wicomb and the secrets of the canon\n Reading and the canon\n Otherness and the universal reader\n Knowledge and the autobiographical author\n Conclusion\n References\nPart Two Communities of secrecy\n 6 Cryptaesthetic resistance and community in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland\n Introduction\n Operative and inoperative communities in Lahiri’s fiction\n The community of siblings\n Secrets and cryptaesthetic resistance in The Lowland\n The lowland: An undecidable topography\n Conclusion\n References\n 7 Queering the Māori crypt: Community and secrecy in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story\n ‘Their own secret language’: Community and secrecy in Uncle Sam’s story\n ‘Charred’: Sam’s diary as a haunting crypt\n ‘Like looking at a bloody ghost’: Michael’s transgenerational trauma\n ‘Deleted from the text’: The queer Māori clan in Michael’s story\n The ‘hollow coffin’: Concluding remarks\n References\n 8 Secrecy, invisibility and community in Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate\n Introduction\n Secrecy, invisibility and history\n Secrecy and community\n Conclusion\n References\n 9 Novel mediums: The art of not speaking in (and of) Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black\n Introduction\n The medium’s dilemma: Withholding the place ‘Beyond Black’\n Death and taxes: Mediumship as a profession\n Making space for what might occur: Mediumship as craft\n How to avoid reading: Mediumship as passion\n Conclusion: Addendum on the ‘law of tact’\n References\nPart Three Secrecy, postcolonialism and democracy\n 10 Shame and the idea of community in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings and What Happened to Us\n References\n 11 ‘Whilst our souls negotiate’: Secrets and secrecy in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity\n Introduction\n Secrets and narrativity\n Against transparency\n Secrets and mutual trust\n Confession as aggression\n ‘Merger of souls’, or, the dangers of too much trust\n Conclusion\n References\n 12 Conversing with spectres: Secrets and ghosts in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees*\n Political secrecy: Singularity and democracy (to come)\n Foreign bodies: Ghosts in Nguyen’s text\n References\nIndex