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050 00 $aPR888.B63$bL43 1995
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100 1 $aLedbetter, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88205583
245 10 $aVictims and the postmodern narrative, or, doing violence to the body :$ban ethic of reading and writing /$cMark Ledbetter.
260 $aLondon :$bMacmillan ;$aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1996.
300 $axii, 159 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tFrontispiece: Judith and Holofernes /$rArtemesia Gentileschi --$tGeneral Editor's Preface /$rDavid Jasper --$g1.$tDoing Violence to the Body: an Ethic of Reading and Writing --$g2.$tThrough the Eyes of a Child: Looking for Victims in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye --$g3.$tAn Apocalypse of Race and Gender: Body Violence and Forming Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved --$g4.$tThe Body Human: Violating the Self and Violating the Other, or Reading the Silenced Narrative - Patrick Suskind's Perfume --$g5.$tThe Body Human and the Body Community: Getting the Story Write/Right in D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel --$g6.$tThe Games Body-Politics Plays: a Rhetoric of Secrecy in Ian McEwan's The Innocent --$g7.$tDesiring Language and the Language of Desire: Consummating Body-Politics in J. M. Coetzee's The Age of Iron --$g8.$t(Re)telling the Old, Old Story --$g9.$tConcluding an Ethic of Reading and Writing: Literary Criticism as Confession.
520 $aVictims and the Postmodern Narrative suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. Narrative is, in fact, the most creatively challenging place to locate ethical discourse. Furthermore, postmodern narrative is an important way to reveal and discuss who are society's victims, inviting the reader to become one with them.
520 8 $aA close reading of fiction by Toni Morrison, Patrick Suskind, D. M. Thomas, Ian McEwan and J. M. Coetzee reveals a violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic, suggesting that violence is the critical issue for exploring ethics in a postmodern context. Such violence is not new to the postmodern world, but merely reflects Western culture's religious traditions, as the author demonstrates through a reading of stories from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.
520 8 $aFinally, Mark Ledbetter suggests that narrative can reverse the course of victimisation against those who suffer merely because they are of an other gender, race, religion or political persuasion from those who have power in our society. Narrative has the ability to call those of us who read and write it to confession, and in confession there is hope for change.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103094
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015234
650 0 $aReligion and literature$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110645
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aMorrison, Toni$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000478
650 0 $aViolence in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143523
650 0 $aVictims in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143175
650 0 $aEthics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004075
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089833
852 00 $bglx$hPR888.B63$iL43 1996
852 00 $bbar$hPR888.B63$iL43 1996