| Description |
1 online resource (x, 217 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-210) and index. |
| Summary |
"Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariandy, Amelia DeFalco argues that these narratives expose the tangled particularities of relations of care, dependency, and responsibility, as well as issues of marginalisation on the basis of gender, race, and class. DeFalco complicates the myth of Canada as an unwaveringly caring nation that is characterized by equality and compassion. Caregiving is unpredictable: one person's altruism can be another's narcissism; one's compassion, another's condescension or even cruelty. In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, these texts depict in stark terms the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Canadian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Dependency (Psychology) in literature.
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Dependency (Psychology) in literature. |
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Responsibility in literature.
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Responsibility in literature. |
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Canadian literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DeFalco, Amelia, 1978- Imagining care. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] 9781442637030 (OCoLC)907661788 |
| ISBN |
9781442637047 (electronic book) |
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1442637048 (electronic book) |
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9781442637030 |
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144263703X |
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