Imagining Care : Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature / Amelia DeFalco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeFalco, Amelia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Canada--21st century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Dependency (Psychology) in literature.

Responsibility in literature.

Canada.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariandy, Amelia DeFalco argues that these narratives expose the tangled particularities of relations of care, dependency, and responsibility, as well as issues of marginalisation on the basis of gender, race, and class. DeFalco complicates the myth of Canada as an unwaveringly caring nation that is characterized by equality and compassion. Caregiving is unpredictable: one person's altruism can be another's narcissism; one's compassion, another's condescension or even cruelty. In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, these texts depict in stark terms the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

"Embedded and embodied: caregiving, life writing and the myth of the autonomous individual

Moral obligation, disordered care: the ethics of caregiving in Margaret Atwood's Moral disorder

Caring for relative others: alterity and narrative in Michael Ignatieff's Scar tissue

"Parodies of love": demands of care in Alice Munro

Caregiving and caretaking: affective economies in Alice Munro

Forgetting and the forgotten: care at the margins in David Chariandy's Soucouyant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-210) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-3705-6

1-4426-3704-8

OCLC:

950464964