Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement: Singing through the Mask

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Gudrun Grabher (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement

Singing through the Mask

Gudrun Grabher (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

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Routledge
18 December 2020

Literary studies: general; Disability: social aspects; Social discrimination; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology

"Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz, and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinas’ concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the other’s ""whole person"" and the sense of moral obligation that this instils in us—a sense that disfigurement disrupts by drawing our attention to the disfigurement as a ""spectacle"" and threatening to limit our view of that individual—the author explores how we react to the facially disfigured and how we ought to react."

By: Gudrun Grabher (University of Innsbruck Austria)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 412g
ISBN: 9780367670689
ISBN 10: 0367670682
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gudrun M. Grabher is Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She was previously a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and the recipient of a research scholarship to Tokyo, as well as a guest professor at the University of Vienna in Austria and at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Her main fields of research are American poetry, literature and philosophy, literature and the arts, and medical humanities.