1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136465403321

Autore

Rock Peter <1967->

Titolo

The unsettling : stories / / by Peter Rock ; selected and introduced by Brian Evenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : Pharos Editions, , 2006

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : Publishers Group West, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2006

ISBN

1-61902-886-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Psychological fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957718303321

Autore

Srikanth Rajini

Titolo

Constructing the enemy : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / / Rajini Srikanth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613341624

9781283341622

128334162X

9781439903254

1439903255

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3554

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Law and literature - United States

Empathy in literature

Aversion in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The landscape of empathy -- Literary imagination and American empathy -- Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship -- Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees -- Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst."

Sommario/riassunto

In her engaging book, Constructing the Enemy, Rajini Srikanth probes the concept of empathy, attempting to understand its different types and how it is-or isn't-generated and maintained in specific circumstances.Using literary texts to illuminate issues of power and discussions of law, Srikanth focuses on two case studies- the internment of Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans in World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the detainment of Muslim Americans and individuals from various nations in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.Through primary doc