Caring for Community - Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Marijke Denger is a Post-Doctoral Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marijke Denger
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138596443
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59644-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures; Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature