Imagining Care ：Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature

Publication subTitle ：Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature

Author： Amelia DeFalco

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

E-ISBN: 9781442637047

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Language： ENG

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Description

“Imagining Care sits at the nexus of moral philosophy, literary narrative, and pragmatic care manuals in a way that will be helpful not only to literary scholars, but also to readers interested in care as an ethical issue. DeFalco reads carefully and writes beautifully.”

Chapter

Introduction: Literature, Care, and Canada

1. Embedded and Embodied: Caregiving, Life Writing, and the Myth of the Autonomous Individual

2. Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder

3. Caring for Relative Others: Alterity and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue

4. “Parodies of Love”: Demands of Care in Alice Munro

5. Caregiving and Caretaking: Affective Economies in Alice Munro

6. Forgetting and the Forgotten: Care at the Margins in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

Conclusion: Imagining the Future of Care

Notes

References

Index

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