1st Edition

The Ethics of Exile Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee

By Timothy Strode Copyright 2005
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and dispossession. The book approaches this problem by, first, providing a theoretical framework derived from the work of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas on the ethical and political implications of... Read more
Preface Chapter One: Ethics Against Ethos: Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Heideggerian Dwelling Chapter Two: Edgar Huntly and Colonial Discourse: Toward a Poetics of Territoriality Chapter Three: The Ends of Edgar Huntly : Colonialism, Ethics, Ethics and the Problem of Closure Chapter Four: South Africa and Urban Segregation: Toward a Poetics of Exile Chapter Five: Dwelling in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee: A Postcolonial Poetics of Exile Notes Index

Biography

Timothy F. Strode teaches English at Nassau Community College. He received his Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.