Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering

by Cynthia Wallace

Book Overview

The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231173687
• ISBN13: 9780231173681
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher