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Narratives of Possibility: Body, Death, and Community in the Modern Novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narratives of Possibility: Body, Death, and Community in the Modern Novel./
Author:	Wacek, Jennifer.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-05A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3740303
ISBN:	9781339323503

Narratives of Possibility: Body, Death, and Community in the Modern Novel.
Wacek, Jennifer.

Narratives of Possibility: Body, Death, and Community in the Modern Novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

This dissertation explores twentieth century novels that foreground violent death as a site for rethinking community. Many contemporary communities exclude those who may be different in terms of race, religion, class, and gender. These community configurations are based on division and are often difficult to change. Encountering violent death can open a possibility of rethinking community in inclusive and expansive ways. Because violent death serves as a reminder of the bodily vulnerability which all human beings share, it can catalyze a rethinking of current community configurations by the witness.

ISBN: 9781339323503Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Comparative literature.

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520 $a This dissertation explores twentieth century novels that foreground violent death as a site for rethinking community. Many contemporary communities exclude those who may be different in terms of race, religion, class, and gender. These community configurations are based on division and are often difficult to change. Encountering violent death can open a possibility of rethinking community in inclusive and expansive ways. Because violent death serves as a reminder of the bodily vulnerability which all human beings share, it can catalyze a rethinking of current community configurations by the witness.
520 $a Narrative is one of the primary ways that human beings make meaning out of experience. In an encounter with violent death, the witness may begin rethinking community beyond divisions of race, class, gender, and religion, but he or she needs to narrate the encounter to fully make sense of it. Narrative already forms a community of narrator and narratee, and it demands both thoughtful telling and careful listening. Both of these things can also lead to the possibility of new iterations of community based on a shared human vulnerability to violence and bodily injury.
520 $a The first chapter examines two novels that highlight the way that a violent death in an isolated, rural community can open a space for reconfiguring community, namely Maryse Conde's Traversee de la mangrove and Alicia Yanez Cossio's La cofradia del mullo del vestido de la Virgen pipona. The second chapter discusses how a violent death can help reconfigure community in the context of postcolonial national communities in Tayib Salih's Mawsim al-Hijra ila ash-Shamal and Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose. The final chapter explores novels that posit thoughtful telling of and careful listening to stories of encounters with death as a path to healing community divisions. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and John Berger's To the Wedding propose a form of community that is transnational and founded on our shared human vulnerability. Each of the novels I discuss ultimately argues that witnessing violent death and narrating the experience can be a departure point for reconfiguring human community as open to all and tolerant of difference and disagreement.
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