Marijke Denger

Caring for Community (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429884856
• Artikelnr.: 56841226

Autorenporträt

Marijke Denger is a Post-Doctoral Assistant in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Commuity "Beyond the Borders" Chapter 1. Michael Ondaatje's
The English Patient: From a Crumbling Villa to a Porous Community Chapter
2. "Building the New"? Un-Timely Community in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted
Vigil Chapter 3. Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog: From Unwanted History
to Unconditional Hospitality Chapter 4. Spectral Agency and the Ghostly
Self: Towards an Unconditional Community in Wendy Law-Yone's The Road to
Wanting Chapter 5. Rethinking Community and its Borders in Contemporary
Postcolonial Literatures Conclusion