Of Women Borne

A Literary Ethics of Suffering
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-17369-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Gender, Theory, and Religion

The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality.

Wallace's approach recognizes the generative interplay between ethical form and content in literature, which helps isolate more distinctly the gendered and religious echoes of suffering and sacrifice in Western culture. By refracting these resonances through the work of feminists and theologians of color, her book also shows the value of broad-ranging ethical explorations into literature, with their power to redefine theories of reading and the nature of our responsibility to art and each other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Cynthia R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: If We Could Learn to Learn from PainAcknowledgments1. History (Herstory) and Theory, or Doing Justice to Redemptive Suffering2. Adrienne Rich and the "Long Dialogue Between Art and Justice"3. Love and Mercy: Toni Morrison's Paradox of Redemptive Suffering4. Ana Castillo, Mexican M.O.M.A.S., and a Hermeneutic of Liberation5. Silent (in the Face of) Suffering? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Postcolonial Cultural HermeneuticsConclusion: Learning to LearnNotesBibliographyList of CreditsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia R. Wallace is assistant professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.