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Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia
- Author(s):
- Nicola Griffith (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Detective Fiction, Early Medieval, Feminist Humanities, LGBTQ Studies, Speculative and Science Fiction
- Subject(s):
- Gay culture in literature, Speculative fiction, Women, History, Writing
- Item Type:
- Thesis
- Institution:
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Tag(s):
- creative writing PhD, focalised heterotopia, historicity literature, narrative empathy, writing the other, Gay and lesbian literature, Women's history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6C18X
- Abstract:
- This critical commentary argues that the novels submitted (emphasis on Ammonite, The Blue Place, and Hild, with three others, Slow River, Stay, and Always briefly referenced), form a coherent body of work which centres and norms the experience of the Other, particularly queer women. Close reading of the novels demonstrates how specific word-choice and metaphor locate the examination of a focalised character’s body in its physical and sensory setting. This examination of the body is referred to as embodiment. The commentary argues that embodiment of the focalised character activates neural mechanisms within the reader to create and sustain narrative empathy. It explores the creation of focalised heterotopias and the narrative consequences for characters traditionally marginalised in our society but not in their own. Keywords: writing the other, queer literature, embodied empathy, focalised heterotopia, narrative empathy, historicity literature, gender discourse literature, word choice
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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