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I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing - Couverture rigide

Robson, Kathryn

 
9781781886755: I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 178188675X ISBN 13 : 9781781886755
Editeur : Legenda, 2019

Synopsis

The increase in the visibility of autobiographies and fiction recounting suffering in this century has gone hand-in-hand with a notable emphasis on the possibilities and limits of empathy. Contemporary French women's writing inscribes and interrogates the imperative to witness and respond to another subject's pain and raises questions about the relation between empathy and reading. Engaging with a range of recent texts, including work by Marie Darrieussecq, Amélie Nothomb, Camille Laurens, Delphine de Vigan and Christine Angot, and representations of different kinds of suffering (including eating disorders, the death of a child, and sexual abuse), this book engages productively with notions of empathy in relation to gender and alterity as well as with the question of what is at stake in reading narratives of someone else's pain.

Kathryn Robson is Senior Lecturer in French at Newcastle University.

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Éditeur
Legenda
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178188675X
ISBN 13 
9781781886755
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
152
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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