Constructing the Enemy : Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law /

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In her engaging book, Constructing the Enemy, Rajini Srikanth probes the concept of empathy, attempting to understand its different types and how it is-or isn't-generated and maintained in specific circumstances. Using literary texts to illuminate issues of power and discussions of law, Srikant...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Srikanth, Rajini
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2012.
Sujets:
American literature > History and criticism.
Law and literature > United States.
Empathy in literature.
Aversion in literature.
Droit et littérature > États-Unis.
Empathie dans la littérature.
Aversion dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
American literature
Aversion in literature
Empathy in literature
Law and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The landscape of empathy
  • Literary imagination and American empathy
  • Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship
  • Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees
  • Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst."

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