Bárbara Arizti and Silvia Martínez-Falquina, (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
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Bárbara Arizti and Silvia Martínez-Falquina, (eds.),On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). ISBN: 1-84718-358-1; ISBN: 13: 9781847183583. |
On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English is an attempt to listen to the various voices that participate in the current dialogue on the relationship between fiction and ethics.
The editors introduction nvestigates the current state of affairs on the return to ethics in critical and literary consideration, and it opens up the way for the variety of approaches that follows. Participants include internationally recognized scholars like Andrew Gibson, Patricia Waugh, or Native American fiction writer and poet Gordon Henry, winner of the American Book Award in 1995. All in all, contributors cover a significant geographical diversity, and their approaches also vary from general theory to particular examples, from traditional interpretations to post-deconstruction ethics. Authors analyze texts both mainstream and marginal, colonial and postcolonial; they examine the ethics of race, gender and sexuality; the ethics of self-positioning and orientation; the ethics of style; the ethics of reception; the ethics of mode and genre; the ethics of extreme situations of evil, disease and fascism. In its search for a better understanding of the global/nationalistic world of today, On the Turn therefore moves beyond the scope of literary criticism into issues of wider, more urgent relevance. |
