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Of women borne : a literary ethics of suffering
Title
Of women borne : a literary ethics of suffering / Cynthia R. Wallace.
ISBN
9780231173681
0231173687
9780231541206
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xxiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012.
Summary
"A new approach to the recent turn to ethics in literary studies that emphasizes the gendered and religious syntax of suffering"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Literary ethics of suffering
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2016
Series
Gender, theory, and religion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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