Journal article
The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age
Journal of the African Literature Association, Vol.8(1), p125
01 Oct 2013
Abstract
What drives The Deliverance of Others is not so much a concern for the ways in which literature makes otherwise foreign worlds more accessible, but more crucially, how reading literature renegotiates the relation between self and other and shifts the very terms of understanding sameness and difference in the first place. The tension that Palumbo-Liu articulates in Nancy's writings offers theoretical insights for thinking the tension in Ishiguro's novel, which is instead situated at an ideological nexus about the role of art as that which enables one "to live in productive blindness to death" or as conveying the idea that "the highest human tragedy is to live in the wrong historical moment" (113). Foregrounding the emotional and affective realms of delivery systems, Palumbo-Liu pays particular attention to the novel's dual focus on ethics and media in order to develop the chapter's framing question: "What kind of alternative critical delivery system might literature be?" (142). For affect crucially links together the body and the psyche, and in so doing, registers the full impact of otherness as "felt in all levels of being, in a network that reaches from the individual body to collective material history, to global relations of production and consumption and back again" (165).
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- Title
- The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age
- Creators
- Jennifer Yusin
- Publication Details
- Journal of the African Literature Association, Vol.8(1), p125
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Identifiers
- 991021866490604721