"The Deliverance of Others" is a compelling reappraisal of the idea
that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens
if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by
globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature
for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our
world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our
lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to
determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much
is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing?
The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that
we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by
reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike
ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M.
Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows
how notions that would seem to offer some basis for
commensurability between ourselves and others--ideas of
rationality, the family, the body, and affect--become less stable
as they try to accommodate more radical types of otherness. For
Palumbo-Liu, the reading of literature is an ethical act, a way of
thinking through our relations to others.
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