Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement - Singing Through the Mask

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Emmanuel Levinas; 2. Face Value; 3. Facial Disfigurement and Its Repairs; 4. Elephant People; 5. Narratives on Facial Disfigurement; Conclusion

About the author

Gudrun M. Grabher is Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She was previously a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and the recipient of a research scholarship to Tokyo, as well as a guest professor at the University of Vienna in Austria and at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Her main fields of research are American poetry, literature and philosophy, literature and the arts, and medical humanities.

Summary

Offering readings of a range of texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face.

Product details

• Authors: Gudrun Grabher, Gudrun (University of Innsbruck Grabher, Gudrun M. Grabher, Grabher Gudrun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367670689
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67068-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary studies: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Disability: social aspects, Social discrimination and social justice