Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood by Jamshidian, Sahar, Pirnajmuddin, Hossein

“…This novel looks into the interethnic relationships among the Cuban immigrants, Haitians, and American whites and blacks. Applying Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of alterity and ethics of sensibility to Back to Blood could be rewarding since it sheds light on the interethnic tensions present among different groups of people whose only concern is their own ‘blood’ and their own race. …”
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