Marina Warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories / Lisa Propst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Propst, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warner, Marina, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Warner, Marina.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories. Lisa Propst argues that the British novelist and public intellectual Marina Warner offers some of the most provocative contemporary interventions into this dilemma. Tracing her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales, Propst shows that in Warner's work, features such as stylized voices and narrative silences - tales that Warner's books hint at but never tell - question the authority of the writer to tell other people's stories. At the same time they demonstrate the power of literature to make new ethical connections between people, inviting readers to reflect on whom they are responsible to and how they are implicated in social systems that perpetuate silencing. By exploring how to combat silencing through narrative without reproducing it, Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories takes up an issue crucial not just to literature and art but to journalists, policy makers, human rights activists, and all people striving to formulate their own responses to injustice.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Stories of Silencing and the Dangers of Appropriation

Writing across Cultures

Role Models and Parallel Lives

Unsettling Stories

Hearing the Unsaid

Nervous Histories

Coda: The Power and Limits of Narrative

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228005063

022800506X

9780228005070

0228005078

OCLC:

1163922726