The Deliverance of Others
The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, a...
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2021
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| author | Palumbo-Liu, David |
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| description | The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and others. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-309982025-07-30T18:55:47Z The Deliverance of Others Palumbo-Liu, David Literary Criticism Semiotics & Theory thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and others. 2021-02-10T13:46:49Z 2021-02-10T13:46:49Z 2020-12-15T14:01:35Z 2008 book OCN: 796093804 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43826 9780822395485 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30998 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43826/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43826/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43826/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43826/1/external_content.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822395485 https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822395485 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched 9780822395485 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Duke University Press open access |
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