Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel / Arne De Boever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Boever, Arne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics.

Ethics in literature.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy's Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the contemporary novel include?"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards a Pharmacological Theory of the Novel

Chapter One: J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man as "a Biologico-Literary Experiment"

Chapter Two: Bare Life and the Camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Chapter Three: Life-Writing in Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441128775

1441128778

9781472543738

1472543734

9781441144720

1441144722

OCLC:

865508299