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Of women borne : a literary ethics of suffering / Cynthia R. Wallace

Author
Wallace, Cynthia (Cynthia R.)
Additional Titles
Literary ethics of suffering
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
xxiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Preface: if we could learn to learn from pain -- History (herstory) and theory, or doing justice to redemptive suffering -- Adrienne Rich and the "long dialogue between art and justice" -- Love and mercy: Toni Morrison's paradox of redemptive suffering -- Ana Castillo, Mexican M.O.M.A.S., and a hermeneutic of liberation -- Silent (in the face of) suffering? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and postcolonial cultural hermeneutics -- Conclusion: learning to learn.
Summary
"A new approach to the recent turn to ethics in literary studies that emphasizes the gendered and religious syntax of suffering"--
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ISBN
9780231173681 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231173687 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Note
Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.
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