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VICTIMS AND THE POSTMODERN NARRATIVE OR DOING VIOLENCE TO THE BODY
AN ETHIC OF READING AND WRITING |
| By: |
Mark Ledbetter, David Jasper |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£107.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333532635 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333532638 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 1996 |
| Series: |
Studies in Literature and Religion |
| Pages: |
159 |
| Description: |
This volume suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. It sets out to show through a reading of stories from the Bible, that violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic are not new to the postmodern world. |
| 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. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |