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Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie, Deborah Bowen makes the case for a new category of "postmodern realism" and shows how contemporary stories about "the real" and "the good" are constructed. Applying theoretical insights from Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin, Bowen investigates categories of postmodern realism such as magic realism, parody, and metafiction while laying the groundwork for Christian readings of a medium that is often perceived as largely irreligious. An illuminating study of well-known contemporary writers, Stories of the Middle Space is a critically nuanced and methodologically innovative work that reads the postmodern from a faith-based perspectives to create new literary insights.
Contents
Acknowledgments Prologue: Between Word and World; A Christian Apologia Introduction: Narrative and Ethics Face to Face Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin 1 True Stories and the Oppressions of History: A.S. Byatt, "Sugar"; Joy Kogawa, Obasan; Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger; Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; 2 Magic Realism, Social Protest, and the Irrepressibility of Language: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry; Jane Urquhart, Away; 3 Parodic Myth and Sacred Story: Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water; Julian Barnes, A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters; Timothy Findley, Not Wanted On the Voyage; 4 Writing with Photographs: Art, Lies, and Realist Developments: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida; Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album; Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family; Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries; 5 The Genres of the Middle Space: A.S. Byatt, "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" Epilogue: Narrative Trace, Textual Grace Notes; Bibliography; Index
