Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels

ISBN-13: 9781138596443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Marijke Denger

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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