Description
| Product ID: | 9780228004042 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Title: | Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Lisa Propst |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, News media and journalism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies: women, Human rights, Press & journalism, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales. Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people''s stories. Lisa Propst argues that the British novelist and public intellectual Marina Warner offers some of the most provocative contemporary interventions into this dilemma. Tracing her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales, Propst shows that in Warner''s work, features such as stylized voices and narrative silences - tales that Warner''s books hint at but never tell - question the authority of the writer to tell other people''s stories. At the same time they demonstrate the power of literature to make new ethical connections between people, inviting readers to reflect on whom they are responsible to and how they are implicated in social systems that perpetuate silencing. By exploring how to combat silencing through narrative without reproducing it, Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories takes up an issue crucial not just to literature and art but to journalists, policy makers, human rights activists, and all people striving to formulate their own responses to injustice. |
| Imprint Name: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Publisher Name: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-17 |
