{"product_id":"9781350542778","title":"Memory, Violence, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature Reading Frictions","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMemory, Violence, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReading Frictions\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaya Caspari | Bryan Cheyette | Martin Paul Eve\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book-length study of the politics of touch in contemporary world literatures, this book identifies new trends in 21st century world literatures of memory and proposes new pathways for comparative reading.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to write ethically about violence today? How should we consider the relationship between diverse histories of modern violence, including the Holocaust, colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade? What are the limitations of empathy as a response to the suffering of others? What might it mean instead, as the anti-colonial psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon once asked, to try to 'touch' the other? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining work by Teju Cole, Katja Petrowskaja, Han Kang and Claudia Rankine, this book explores how contemporary world literary authors create new, anticolonial imaginaries through their representations of entangled, transnational histories of modern violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaya Caspari \u003c\/b\u003eis a Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 June 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350542778\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52223162351756,"sku":"9781350542778","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350542778","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}