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Recognition & Ethics in World Literature - Religion, Violence & the Human (Paperback)
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Recognition & Ethics in World Literature - Religion, Violence & the Human (Paperback)
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This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world
literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or
return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development
of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda
Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and JM
Coetzee, exploring the overlaps and divergences between
Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics as they are brought to
bear on literature. The characters' recognitions and emotional
responses in these texts are integral to the unfolding of their
ethical concerns, and the ethics thus explored is often marked by
the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. A view of
recognition is advanced that shifts it from the more usual
political understanding in the field towards seeing it as a formal
device used to unfold an ethical knowledge peculiar to fictional
narrative, and particularly suitable for the concerns of world
literature authors in its interconnection of the universal and the
particular -- a binary that has been crucial in post-colonialism
and remains important for the wider field of world literature. The
analysis unfolds with a focus on three broad ethical themes --
religion, the memory of violence, and the human-eliciting the
novelists' contributions to these debates through the investigation
of the functioning of moments of recognition in their novels.
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