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OverviewImagining 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amelia DeFalcoPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.320kg ISBN: 9781487553814ISBN 10: 1487553811 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 31 August 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Literature, Care, and Canada Chapter 1. Embedded and Embodied: Caregiving, Life Writing and the Myth of the Autonomous Individual Chapter 2. Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder Chapter 3. Caring for Relative Others: Alterity and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue Chapter 4. “Parodies of Love”: Demands of Care in Alice Munro Chapter 5. Caregiving and Caretaking: Affective Economies in Alice Munro Chapter 6. Forgetting and the Forgotten: Care at the Margins in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant Conclusion: Imagining The Future of CareReviews"""DeFalco enacts a feminist critique that connects ethical philosophies of care to literary representations of caregiving."" -- Sirhiy Bilenky, David Eso * Canadian Literature 232 Spint 2017 * ""Imagining Care is a well-written and well-researched book that considers ethical dilemmas in Canadian literature and argues for a reconsideration of the notion that Canada is unquestionably benevolent…The book is an excellent addition to the corpus of critical work on Canadian literature. It points to ways in which writing in Canada addresses urgent questions on the complexities of ethics and care."" -- Laura K. Davis, Red Deer College * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 * ‘It is a fine, thought-provoking, and eminently suggestive study… DeFalco undertakes important work in studying care and its effects – not only those effects necessary and desirable, but also those precarious and perilous-on the many who require care and the many others called on to be their caregivers.’ -- David Staines * Modern Fiction Studies vol 63:04:2017 *" "'It is a fine, thought-provoking, and eminently suggestive study... DeFalco undertakes important work in studying care and its effects - not only those effects necessary and desirable, but also those precarious and perilous-on the many who require care and the many others called on to be their caregivers.' ""Imagining Care is a well-written and well-researched book that considers ethical dilemmas in Canadian literature and argues for a reconsideration of the notion that Canada is unquestionably benevolent...The book is an excellent addition to the corpus of critical work on Canadian literature. It points to ways in which writing in Canada addresses urgent questions on the complexities of ethics and care."" ""DeFalco enacts a feminist critique that connects ethical philosophies of care to literary representations of caregiving.""" Author InformationAmelia DeFalco is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative. In 2009 she received the Polanyi Prize for literature from the Government of Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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