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Marina Warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories /

"Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories. Lisa Propst argues that the Britis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Propst, Lisa Gena, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Stories of Silencing and the Dangers of Appropriation
  • 1 Writing across Cultures: Multiple Viewpoints and Openness to Uncertainty in Warners's Early Life and Vietnam Journalism
  • 2 Role Models and Parallel Lives: Identification and Imagination in In a Dark Wood, The Skating Party, and The Lost Father
  • 3 Unsettling Stories: Disruptions of Empathy in Indigo and The Leto Bundle
  • 4 Hearing the Unsaid: An Ethics of Bearing Witness in Warner's Short Fiction
  • 5 Nervous Histories: Resistance to Scholarly Mastery in Warner's Studies of Myths and Fairy Tales
  • Coda: The Power and Limits of Narrative
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index