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Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics |
| Names |
Davison, Neil R.
(creator) |
| Date Issued | 2014 (iso8601) |
| Note | This is the publisher’s final pdf. The article is copyrighted by the Purdue Research Foundation and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It can be found at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/. |
| Abstract | This article examines the influence of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethical aspects of the life and work of André Schwarz-Bart. The essay is framed through recent re-interest in Schwarz-Bart’s collaborative works with his wife, Simone, as a bridge between Holocaust and postcolonial studies. The publications, arguments, and key points of intersubjective ethics in Levinas’s work that Schwarz-Bart encountered are carefully examined. The argument confronts the critical reception of Levinas’s concepts of the feminine and dwelling to demonstrate how, when seen through a Judaic lens, these notions form a new gendered reading of Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just. |
| Genre | Article |
| Identifier | Davison, N. R. (2014). Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 60(4), 767-795. |
