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Constructing the enemy : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / Rajini Srikanth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Srikanth, Rajini.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Law and literature--United States.
- Law and literature.
- Empathy in literature.
- Aversion in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In her engaging book, Constructing the Enemy, Rajini Srikanth probes the concept of empathy, attempting to understand its different types and how it is-or isn't-generated and maintained in specific circumstances.Using literary texts to illuminate issues of power and discussions of law, Srikanth focuses on two case studies- the internment of Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans in World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the detainment of Muslim Americans and individuals from various nations in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.Through primary doc
- Contents:
- The landscape of empathy
- Literary imagination and American empathy
- Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship
- Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees
- Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst."
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613341624
- 9781283341622
- 128334162X
- 9781439903254
- 1439903255
- OCLC:
- 768113612
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