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Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Boever, Arne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Subjects:
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Biopolitics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Towards a pharmacology of the novel
  • The moment of narrative care
  • A pharmacological theory of care
  • A biopolitical history of the novel
  • After ethics: reading Sebald's images
  • J.M. Coetzee and the obscene
  • J.M. Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment"
  • A novel of care
  • The welfare state
  • From pastoral care to biopolitics
  • Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment"
  • The politics of companionship
  • Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go
  • Exploding care
  • Biopolitics in Never let me go
  • The novel as a camp
  • Aesthetics of existence
  • Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions
  • Creation and destruction
  • Life-stories (Sadism and the novel)
  • The inner life of Martin Frost
  • History's remains
  • "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder
  • Very little, almost nothing
  • The pharmacology of re-enactment
  • "Strategy of the real"
  • The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics)
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care
  • Narrative coma
  • Care and gender
  • Rebellions of care.