“Their Spidery Self”: On Webs of Subject-Object Empathy in Bernardine Evaristo’s Fiction.
Drawing on the theoretical premises of Anthropocene feminism, new materialist feminism and empathy studies, this paper represents an attempt to explore the mutually constitutive relations conjured in Bernardine Evaristo’s fiction between subjects and the object worlds they inhabit. Focusing on Lara...
| Publicado en: | Caietele Echinox Vol. 41; pp. 281 - 296 |
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Echinox Cultural Foundation
2021
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