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Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels

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Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood to function on the basis of individuals’ readiness to establish relationships of reciprocal responsibility. This book, however, argues that community and non-reciprocity need not be mutually exclusive categories. Examining works by leading contemporary postcolonial authors and reading them against Judith Butler’s post-9/11 concept of global political community, the book explores how concrete acts of responsibility can be carried out in recognition of various others, even and precisely when those others cannot be expected to respond. The literary analyses draw on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to care, hospitality and the ethical encounter between self and other. Overall, this book establishes that the novels’ protagonists, by investing in an ethics of responsibility that does not require reciprocity, acquire the agency to envisage new forms of community. By reflecting on the nature and effect of this agency and its representation in contemporary literary texts, the book also considers the role of postcolonial studies in addressing highly topical questions regarding our co-existence with others.

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edition cumulus Insight Editions 21 x 0,5 x 29,7 cm 25 Şubat 2018 Collectif 21 x 0,5 x 29,6 cm 28 Şubat 2018 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm 22 Mayıs 2016 J B SBoon 14,8 x 0,5 x 21 cm 14,8 x 0,7 x 21 cm 30 Eylül 2020 21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm 23 Temmuz 2017 12 Eylül 2017 Kolektif Emily Grace

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