PLURIVOCAL NARRATION AS AN EMPATHETIC RESPONSE OF RESISTANCE TO COLONIAL PREJUDICE. WRITING ALTERITY IN THE VOYAGE OUT
This essay proposes that literature is instrumental to the development of an ‘ethics of the empathetic imagination’. Literature illustrates, and often propounds widely shared cultural beliefs. But literature’s association with any cultural system is also manifest a contrario, in the fact that it int...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Udine
2019-11-01
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Series: | Le Simplegadi |
Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/989 |