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OverviewEfforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories. Lisa Propst argues that the British novelist and public intellectual Marina Warner offers some of the most provocative contemporary interventions into this dilemma. Tracing her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales, Propst shows that in Warner's work, features such as stylized voices and narrative silences - tales that Warner's books hint at but never tell - question the authority of the writer to tell other people's stories. At the same time they demonstrate the power of literature to make new ethical connections between people, inviting readers to reflect on whom they are responsible to and how they are implicated in social systems that perpetuate silencing. By exploring how to combat silencing through narrative without reproducing it, Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories takes up an issue crucial not just to literature and art but to journalists, policy makers, human rights activists, and all people striving to formulate their own responses to injustice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa PropstPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 9780228004035ISBN 10: 0228004039 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 17 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback 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 ContentsReviewsMarina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories contributes substantively to Warner criticism and completely overhauls conventional conceptions of her writing. This is a hugely impressive, highly original book. Mike Marais, Rhodes University Author InformationLisa Propst is assistant professor of literature at Clarkson University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |