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...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Literature Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 116 - 149 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Spring2017
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| Sumario: | 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 overview of the story is also given. |
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