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Constructing the enemy : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / Rajini Srikanth.

Title
Constructing the enemy : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / Rajini Srikanth.
Author
Srikanth, Rajini
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

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Description
205 p.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Law and literature > United States
  • Empathy in literature
  • Aversion in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The landscape of empathy -- Literary imagination and American empathy -- Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship -- Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees -- Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst."
ISBN
  • 9781439903230 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1439903239 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781439903247 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1439903247 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781439903254 (e-book)
  • 1439903255 (e-book)
LCCN
^^2011016212
OCLC
  • 714726333
  • SCSB-10699918
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library