{"product_id":"imagining-care-responsibility-dependency-and-canadian-literature-paperback","title":"Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmelia Defalco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining Care\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeFalco 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia DeFalco\u003c\/strong\u003e is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and the author of \u003cem\u003eUncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2009 she received the Polanyi Prize for literature from the Government of Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68004014325912,"sku":"9781487553814","price":66.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/Fblp7ZWBj19781487553814.webp?v=1794675083","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/imagining-care-responsibility-dependency-and-canadian-literature-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}