TY - CHAP
T1 - Precarity, Precariousness, Homelessness and the Literature and Ethics of Responsiveness
AU - Anderton, Joseph
A2 - Onega, Susana
A2 - Ganteau, Jean-Michel
PY - 2023/8/15
Y1 - 2023/8/15
N2 - This chapter uses examples from contemporary literature about homelessness and forcible displacement to identify literary intersections with response ethics and related concepts: recognition and framing; witnessing and address; relationality, dispossession and corporeality. I argue that literature on homelessness evokes elements of response ethics in action within the narratives but also that writing and reading these stories is a significant activity in witnessing and responding to the needs of others, particularly by stimulating critical self-reflection on our relative vulnerabilities and possible ethical actions.
AB - This chapter uses examples from contemporary literature about homelessness and forcible displacement to identify literary intersections with response ethics and related concepts: recognition and framing; witnessing and address; relationality, dispossession and corporeality. I argue that literature on homelessness evokes elements of response ethics in action within the narratives but also that writing and reading these stories is a significant activity in witnessing and responding to the needs of others, particularly by stimulating critical self-reflection on our relative vulnerabilities and possible ethical actions.
UR - https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/14676/
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Brill Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics
BT - Brill Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics
PB - Brill
ER -