{"product_id":"eating-well-reading-well-9789042023277","title":"Eating Well, Reading Well","description":"While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé’s work—history and globalization in \u003ci\u003eLa Belle Créole\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoi, Tituba sorcière...noire de Salem\u003c\/i\u003e, intertextuality and reception in \u003ci\u003eLa migration des cœurs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCélanire cou-coupé\u003c\/i\u003e, trauma and subjectivity in \u003ci\u003eEn attendant le bonheur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDesirada\u003c\/i\u003e, community and ethics in \u003ci\u003eTraversée de la mangrove\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHistoire de la femme cannibale\u003c\/i\u003e—this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Condé engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to \u003ci\u003eread well\u003c\/i\u003e. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader’s interpretive habits.","brand":"Nicole Simek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270278164731,"sku":"9789042023277","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_9c9356e5-ae95-4677-bf16-8650832f0004.jpg?v=1773738894","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/eating-well-reading-well-9789042023277","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}