Narrative Care - by Arne de Boever & Arne De Boever (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee's <i>Slow Man</i>, Kazuo Ishiguro's <i>Never Let Me Go</i>, Paul Auster's <i>The Book of Illusions</i>, and Tom McCarthy's <i>Remainder</i>, it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the contemporary novel include?<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"...his argument on the politics and ethics of narrative is bold, imaginative, and accessible to readers unfamiliar with philosophy and theory on biopolitics." --<i>Nicolette Bragg, College Literature, Vol. 41.3</i> <p/>"'It is clear that we cannot go on as before' (142), Arne De Boever states in his paradigm shifting volume, Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel [...] De Boever's study carries on a tradition of Foucauldian literary criticism earlier exemplified by D. A. Miller's The Novel and the Police, but it achieves a significant shift in analytical focus: from surveillance to biopolitical control, from the individual body to the body politic, and from narrative discipline to narrative care." --Stepanie Hsu, Pace University, Studies in the Novel</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA.</p>
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