1st Edition
Caring for Community Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels
By Marijke Denger
Copyright 2019
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood to function on the basis of individuals’ readiness to establish relationships of reciprocal... Read more
Introduction: Commuity "Beyond the Borders" Chapter 1. Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient: From a Crumbling Villa to a Porous Community Chapter 2. “Building the New”? Un-Timely Community in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil Chapter 3. Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog: From Unwanted History to Unconditional Hospitality Chapter 4. Spectral Agency and the Ghostly Self: Towards an Unconditional Community in Wendy Law-Yone’s The Road to Wanting Chapter 5. Rethinking Community and its Borders in Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures Conclusion
Biography
Marijke Denger is a Post-Doctoral Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland
