TY - BOOK ID - 78340568 TI - Imagining Care : Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature PY - 2018 SN - 1442637048 9781442637047 9781442637030 144263703X 1442637056 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Canadian literature (English) KW - English literature KW - Dependency (Psychology) in literature. KW - Responsibility in literature. KW - Responsibility as a theme in literature KW - Canadian literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism. KW - Kaṇada. KW - Canada. KW - Sainsbury, Brendan KW - Melbourne KW - 2020 KW - -Canada. KW - Canada (Province) KW - Canadae KW - Ceanada KW - Chanada KW - Chanadey KW - Dominio del Canad KW - Dominion of Canada KW - Jianada KW - Kʻaenada KW - Kanada KW - Ḳanadah KW - Kanadaja KW - Kanadas KW - Ḳanade KW - Kanado KW - Kanak KW - Province of Canada KW - Republica de Canad KW - Yn Chanadey KW - Dominio del Canadá KW - Kaineḍā KW - Kanakā KW - Republica de Canadá UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340568 AB - "Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariandy, Amelia DeFalco argues that these narratives expose the tangled particularities of relations of care, dependency, and responsibility, as well as issues of marginalisation on the basis of gender, race, and class. DeFalco complicates the myth of Canada as an unwaveringly caring nation that is characterized by equality and compassion. Caregiving is unpredictable: one person's altruism can be another's narcissism; one's compassion, another's condescension or even cruelty. In a country that conceives of itself as a caring society, these texts depict in stark terms the ethical dilemmas that arise from our attempts to respond to the needs of others."-- ER -