Recognition and ethics in world literature : religion, violence, and the human /

Recognition and ethics in world literature : religion, violence, and the human /

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Author / Creator:	Van Bever Donker, Vincent, 1983- author.
Imprint:	Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 269 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in world literature ; v. 2 Studies in world literature ; v. 2.
Subject:	Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects. Criticism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11407192

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ISBN:	9783838268477 3838268474 3838208676 9783838208671
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. The book examines the ethical engagement of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and J.M. Coetzee, exploring the overlap and divergence between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics. Recognitions and emotional responses are integral to the unfolding of ethical concerns, and the ethics they explore are often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. Recognition is 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 postcolonialism and remains important for the wider field of world literature. This study builds its analysis around three broad themes: religion, the memory of violence, and the human.
Other form:	Print version: Van Bever Donker, Vincent, 1983- Recognition and ethics in world literature. Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, 2016 3838208676

Table of Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Ethics, the World, and the Postcolonial: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro; Chapter One Anagnorisis and the Clash of Values; Chapter Two Religion and the Ethics of Remembrance; Chapter Three The Failure of Recognition; Chapter Four The Beauty of the Mortal Human; Conclusion Elizabeth Costello; Bibliography; Index.