Of women borne : a literary ethics of suffering /
"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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Columbia University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Gender, theory, and religion
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Summary: |
"A new approach to the recent turn to ethics in literary studies that emphasizes the gendered and religious syntax of suffering"-- |
Item Description: | Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012. |
Carrier Form: | xxiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-289) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780231173681 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0231173687 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9780231541206 (ebook) 0231541201 (ebook) |
Index Number: | PN56 |
CLC: | I106 |
Call Number: | I106/W187 |
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. |