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Author:

Wallace, Cynthia (Cynthia R.), author.

Title:

Of women borne : a literary ethics of suffering / Cynthia R. Wallace.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Suffering in literature.
Pain in literature.
Redemption in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--21st century.

Notes:

Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.

Contents:

Preface: if we could learn to learn from pain -- History (herstory) and theory, or doing justice to redemptive suffering -- Adrienne Rich and the "long dialogue between art and justice" -- Love and mercy: Toni Morrison's paradox of redemptive suffering -- Ana Castillo, Mexican M.O.M.A.S., and a hermeneutic of liberation -- Silent (in the face of) suffering? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and postcolonial cultural hermeneutics -- Conclusion: learning to learn.

Summary:

"A new approach to the recent turn to ethics in literary studies that emphasizes the gendered and religious syntax of suffering"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Gender, theory, and religion

ISBN:

0231173687
9780231173681

OCLC:

(OCoLC)914417646

LCCN:

2015018091

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)