Amelia DeFalco

Imagining Care

Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, Imagined Care discusses texts which depict the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781487553814
• ISBN-10: 1487553811
• Artikelnr.: 65698090

Autorenporträt

By Amelia DeFalco

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Literature, Care, and Canada
Chapter 1. Embedded and Embodied: Caregiving, Life Writing and the Myth of
the Autonomous Individual
Chapter 2. Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in
Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder
Chapter 3. Caring for Relative Others: Alterity and Narrative in Michael
Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue
Chapter 4. “Parodies of Love”: Demands of Care in Alice Munro
Chapter 5. Caregiving and Caretaking: Affective Economies in Alice Munro
Chapter 6. Forgetting and the Forgotten: Care at the Margins in David
Chariandy’s Soucouyant
Conclusion: Imagining The Future of Care