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Imagining care : responsibility, dependency, and Canadian literature
- Title
- Imagining care : responsibility, dependency, and Canadian literature / Amelia DeFalco.
- Author
- DeFalco, Amelia, 1978-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- x, 217 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariandy, Amelia DeFalco argues that these narratives expose the tangled particularities of relations of care, dependency, and responsibility, as well as issues of marginalisation on the basis of gender, race, and class. DeFalco complicates the myth of Canada as an unwaveringly caring nation that is characterized by equality and compassion. Caregiving is unpredictable: one person's altruism can be another's narcissism; one's compassion, another's condescension or even cruelty. In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, these texts depict in stark terms the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
- Contents
- "Embedded and embodied: caregiving, life writing and the myth of the autonomous individual -- Moral obligation, disordered care: the ethics of caregiving in Margaret Atwood's Moral disorder -- Caring for relative others: alterity and narrative in Michael Ignatieff's Scar tissue -- "Parodies of love": demands of care in Alice Munro -- Caregiving and caretaking: affective economies in Alice Munro -- Forgetting and the forgotten: care at the margins in David Chariandy's Soucouyant.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10420
- ISBN
- 9781442637030 (bound)
- 144263703X (bound)
- OCLC
- 907661788
- Author
- DeFalco, Amelia, 1978- author.
- Title
- Imagining care : responsibility, dependency, and Canadian literature / Amelia DeFalco.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10420