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Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel /

"If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Boever, Arne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Towards a pharmacology of the novel
  • The moment of narrative care
  • A pharmacological theory of care
  • A biopolitical history of the novel
  • After ethics: reading Sebald's images
  • J.M. Coetzee and the obscene
  • J.M. Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment"
  • A novel of care
  • The welfare state
  • From pastoral care to biopolitics
  • Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment"
  • The politics of companionship
  • Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go
  • Exploding care
  • Biopolitics in Never let me go
  • The novel as a camp
  • Aesthetics of existence
  • Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions
  • Creation and destruction
  • Life-stories (Sadism and the novel)
  • The inner life of Martin Frost
  • History's remains
  • "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder
  • Very little, almost nothing
  • The pharmacology of re-enactment
  • "Strategy of the real"
  • The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics)
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care
  • Narrative coma
  • Care and gender
  • Rebellions of care.