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Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing

Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing

Ledbetter, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Literature and Religion

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0333532635
ISBN13: 9780333532638
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 17 1996
Pages: 159
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Victims and the Postmodern Narrative suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. Postmodern narrative is an important way to reveal and discuss who are society's victims, inviting the reader to become one with them. A close reading of fiction by Toni Morrison, Patrick Suskind, D.M. Thomas, Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee reveals a violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic. Such violence is not new to the postmodern world, but merely reflects Western culture's religious traditions, as the author demonstrates through a reading of stories from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.

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