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Autor/in | Zembylas, Michalinos |
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Titel | Bearing Witness to the Ethics and Politics of Suffering: J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace," Inconsolable Mourning, and the Task of Educators |
Quelle | In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 28 (2009) 3, S.223-237 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0039-3746 |
DOI | 10.1007/s11217-008-9108-0 |
Schlagwörter | Grief; Racial Segregation; Ethics; Novels; Teaching Methods; Task Analysis; Politics; Foreign Countries; History; Conflict; Social Change; South Africa |
Abstract | How can educators and their students interrogate the ethics and politics of suffering in ways that do not create fixed and totalized narratives from the past? In responding to this question, this essay draws on J. M. Coeetze's "Disgrace," and discusses how this novel constitutes a crucial site for bearing witness to the suffering engendered by apartheid through inventing new forms of mourning and community. The anti-historicist stance of the novel is grounded on the notion that bearing witness to suffering without betraying it means refusing to represent it, that is, refusing to translate history and speak of it; instead, the novel's characters remain inconsolable before history. The essay builds on these ideas and considers whether educators and their students need to (re)learn the limits of historicism in comprehending conflict, oppression, otherness and suffering; also, it examines the educational implications of such a pedagogical task. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |