{"product_id":"eating-well-reading-well-maryse-conde-and-the-ethics-of-interpretation-9789042023277","title":"Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nicole Simek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Cond� has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Cond�'s work--history and globalization in \u003ci\u003eLa Belle Cr�ole\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoi, Tituba sorci�re...noire de Salem\u003c\/i\u003e, intertextuality and reception in \u003ci\u003eLa migration des coeurs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eC�lanire cou-coup�\u003c\/i\u003e, trauma and subjectivity in \u003ci\u003eEn attendant le bonheur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDesirada\u003c\/i\u003e, community and ethics in \u003ci\u003eTravers�e de la mangrove\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHistoire de la femme cannibale\u003c\/i\u003e--this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Cond� engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to \u003ci\u003eread well\u003c\/i\u003e. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader's interpretive habits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611785379991,"sku":"9789042023277","price":9436.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789042023277.webp?v=1775072879","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/eating-well-reading-well-maryse-conde-and-the-ethics-of-interpretation-9789042023277","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}