LEADER 04263nam 2200589 450 001 9910819923803321 005 20230803022536.0 010 $a94-012-0979-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209793 035 $a(CKB)2550000001166641 035 $a(EBL)1581543 035 $a(OCoLC)865493922 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001081772 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11681032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001081772 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11091534 035 $a(PQKB)10202515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1581543 035 $a(OCoLC)865493922$z(OCoLC)864744820 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209793 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1581543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10816349 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL548007 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001166641 100 $a20131031d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthical encounters $espaces and selves in the writings of Rudy Wiebe /$fJanne Korkka 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 225 1 $aCross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v166 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3725-3 311 $a1-306-16756-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references (pages 287-297) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- The Ethics of Knowing -- Encountering Mennonite Alterity in Wiebe?s Writing -- Representing the First Nations: Encounters with Totality of Knowledge -- People and Prairie Space: Knowledge of the Self and Knowledge of Space -- Alterity of Space: Where is the North? -- The Dissolution of the Self?s Knowledge: ?Being in the North? -- Space and the Limits of the Self?s Knowledge -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aThe problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas?s philosophy on the ethics of encountering the other, the book argues that Wiebe?s writings show that the self?s knowledge offers an inadequate basis for ethically valid representations of those encounters. In the search for ethical ways of engaging with alterity, Wiebe?s writings offer new ways of employing silence and the presence of the unknowable as means to explore encounters with alterity. Ethical Encounters shows that dividing Wiebe?s work into two sharply distinct categories of ?Mennonite? and ?First Nations? writings overlooks important connections between the author?s central works and may seriously hinder the interrogation of narrative engagement with alterity. While such human encounters resonate against ethical strategies of representation, the greatest challenge for the ethics of encounter in Wiebe?s texts arises in encounters with the alterity of space. Ethical Encounters engages with both physical and narrative spaces which are not permanently fixed in landscape or geography, or in human perceptions of place, arguing that the most radical expressions of alterity in Wiebe?s writings emerge in encounters with the spaces of the Canadian North. The study raises questions about the relationship between the self and the other as they concern knowing: what does the self know when it claims to know another person or space? How does the narrating self negotiate the seeming collapse of its own knowledge when it encounters others whose stories cannot be known? Ethical Encounters casts new light not just on Wiebe?s writings but also on how we as authors and readers engage with expressions of alterity which refuse to be transformed into familiar, knowable forms. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v166. 606 $aCanadian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.54 700 $aKorkka$b Janne$01668589 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819923803321 996 $aEthical encounters$94029284 997 $aUNINA