Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing (Studies in Literature and Religion)

Ledbetter, Mark:

ISBN 10: 0333532635 / ISBN 13: 9780333532638

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

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171 Seiten; St. Martin - 10th. 2005 : Mark Ledbetter - gb + Su T3-VDVH-MDI8 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 375.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing (Studies in Literature and Religion)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333532635
• ISBN 13: 9780333532638
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 375 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literaturgeschichte & -kritik

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Synopsis

Victims and the Postmodern Narrative suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. Postmodern narrative is an important way to reveal and discuss who are society's victims, inviting the reader to become one with them. A close reading of fiction by Toni Morrison, Patrick Suskind, D.M. Thomas, Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee reveals a violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic. Such violence is not new to the postmodern world, but merely reflects Western culture's religious traditions, as the author demonstrates through a reading of stories from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.