Verlag Max Niemeyer
Repair the World : French Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Product Code:
9783111427881
ISBN13:
9783111427881
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New
$123.27
Talk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not only serve as a means of "personal development", but expand our capacity for empathy, help repair the "brokenness" implied in victimhood, and redress individual and collective traumas. Centered on a critical reflection on discourses of repair (and reparations), it questions the canonical theories on the functions of literature and proposes a new way of writing (and reading) literary history.
| Author: Alexandre Gefen |
| Publisher: Verlag Max Niemeyer |
| Publication Date: Aug 19, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 3111427889 |
| ISBN-13: 9783111427881 |
Repair the World : French Literature in the Twenty-First Century
$123.27
Talk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not only serve as a means of "personal development", but expand our capacity for empathy, help repair the "brokenness" implied in victimhood, and redress individual and collective traumas. Centered on a critical reflection on discourses of repair (and reparations), it questions the canonical theories on the functions of literature and proposes a new way of writing (and reading) literary history.
| Author: Alexandre Gefen |
| Publisher: Verlag Max Niemeyer |
| Publication Date: Aug 19, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 3111427889 |
| ISBN-13: 9783111427881 |
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