Imagining Care

Imagining Care Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.  

Book information

ISBN: 9781442637030
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.9353
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 232
Weight: 516g
Height: 240mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 24mm