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



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Autore: Srikanth Rajini Visualizza persona
Titolo: Constructing the enemy : empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law / / Rajini Srikanth Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/3554
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
Law and literature - United States
Empathy in literature
Aversion in literature
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
Titolo autorizzato: Constructing the enemy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-34162-X
9786613341624
1-4399-0325-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825874803321
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