Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

by Arne De Boever

Book Overview

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 Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628925248
• ISBN13: 9781628925241
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"