Presentation
Affects and the Limits of Empathy
11th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
(2017)
Abstract
The paper considered the ways that both Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric critique and resist easy readerly empathy in order to offer new models of “affective” empathy.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 23, 2017
Location
Basel, Switzerland
Citation Information
Ralph Clare. "Affects and the Limits of Empathy" 11th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ralph_clare/29/