Violence, postcolonial fiction, and the limits of sympathy:

Title: Violence, postcolonial fiction, and the limits of sympathy:
Creator: Marais, Mike
Date Issued: 2011
Date: 2011
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143993
Identifier: vital:38301
Identifier: DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2011.0034
Description: In this article, I consider the implications for fiction of Slavo Zizek’s argument that the violence of individual subjects is informed by ‘symbolic violence’ (1-2), that is, the distortions concomitant on languages’s constitutive, rather than merely referential, relation to the world.
Format: 21 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Studies in the Novel
Relation: Marais, M., 2011. Violence, postcolonial fiction, and the limits of sympathy. Studies in the Novel, 43(1), pp.94-114.
Relation: Studies in the Novel volume 43 number 1 94 114 2011 1934-1512
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