Abdullah I

Achebe C

Ahmed S

Akpan U

Andrade SZ

Beah I

Brooks K

Butler J

Dau JB

Eaglestone R

Eggers D

Forna A

Hammond D

Madhu Krishnan

Nussbaum MC

Owuor Y

Peek M

Phillips DZ

Powell KM

Snow NE

Spencer R

Wood M

Yost B

This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining the ways in which each novel situates its staging of African conflict against the a priori image of Africa, the article focuses on the ways in which each novel demands a readerly engagement based on alterity. Rather than viewing the text as a passive repository of ethical lessons, the article suggests that by leveraging narrative unreliability both novels create a vision of literature as the active site of ethical engagement and conflict.</jats:p

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Affect, empathy, and engagement: Reading African conflict in the global literary marketplace

This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining the ways in which each novel situates its staging of African conflict against the a priori image of Africa, the article focuses on the ways in which each novel demands a readerly engagement based on alterity. Rather than viewing the text as a passive repository of ethical lessons, the article suggests that by leveraging narrative unreliability both novels create a vision of literature as the active site of ethical engagement and conflict

Krishnan, Madhu

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Affect, empathy, and engagement:Reading African conflict in the global literary marketplace

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Affect, empathy, and engagement:Reading African conflict in the global literary marketplace

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