Being taught something world-sized : 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' and the work of world literature
- This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.
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| Author: | Dirk Wiemann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609500 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/wiemann_something-world-sized.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_07 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-013-8 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-022-0 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/07 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/06/10 |
| Tag: | Anagogy; Ethics; Refugee tales; Singularity; World literature |
| GND Keyword: | Smith, Ali; Flüchtling; Erzählung; Weltliteratur; Ethik; Anagoge |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 150 |
| Last Page: | 172 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 481513361 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
