Chris Abani

Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani's work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption.

About the author

Annalisa Oboe is Full Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial studies at the University of Padua, Italy

Elisa Bordin is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Summary

Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani’s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Elisa Bordin, Annalisa Oboe, Annalisa Bordin Oboe
• Assisted by: John Thieme (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781526147202
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4720-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Contemporary World Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies