Zadie Smith's NW: Unsettling the Promise of Empathy.

A literary criticism of the book "NW: A Novel" by Zadie Smith is presented. It outlines the characters and explores their symbolic significance. It examines the ethical and political potential of empathy in an updating sentimentalist idea of feeling with others for the neoliberal present. An overvie...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Literature Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 116 - 149
Autor principal: HOUSER, TAMMY AMIEL
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press Spring2017
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