Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood

Tom Wolf once more in his last novel Back to Blood (2012) has taken the issue of race and ethnic tensions as one of its primary themes and this time he has chosen the city of Miami, home to the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US major metropolitan area. This novel looks into th...

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Main Authors: Jamshidian, Sahar, Pirnajmuddin, Hossein
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
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spelling ukm-77372016-12-14T06:45:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7737/ Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood Jamshidian, Sahar Pirnajmuddin, Hossein Tom Wolf once more in his last novel Back to Blood (2012) has taken the issue of race and ethnic tensions as one of its primary themes and this time he has chosen the city of Miami, home to the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US major metropolitan area. This novel looks into the interethnic relationships among the Cuban immigrants, Haitians, and American whites and blacks. Applying Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of alterity and ethics of sensibility to Back to Blood could be rewarding since it sheds light on the interethnic tensions present among different groups of people whose only concern is their own ‘blood’ and their own race. We argue that Wolfe’s novel, read in terms of ethics of sensibility, with its emphasis on the responsibility of one for the naked, universal Other, reveals how altericide and indifference towards the plight of the Other lie at the heart of most interethnic tensions and conflicts. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7737/1/6044-18844-1-PB.pdf Jamshidian, Sahar and Pirnajmuddin, Hossein (2014) Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 39-50. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description Tom Wolf once more in his last novel Back to Blood (2012) has taken the issue of race and ethnic tensions as one of its primary themes and this time he has chosen the city of Miami, home to the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US major metropolitan area. This novel looks into the interethnic relationships among the Cuban immigrants, Haitians, and American whites and blacks. Applying Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of alterity and ethics of sensibility to Back to Blood could be rewarding since it sheds light on the interethnic tensions present among different groups of people whose only concern is their own ‘blood’ and their own race. We argue that Wolfe’s novel, read in terms of ethics of sensibility, with its emphasis on the responsibility of one for the naked, universal Other, reveals how altericide and indifference towards the plight of the Other lie at the heart of most interethnic tensions and conflicts.
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author Jamshidian, Sahar
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Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
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Pirnajmuddin, Hossein
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title Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
title_short Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
title_full Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
title_fullStr Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
title_full_unstemmed Fiction absolute and ethics: Tom Wolfe‘s back to blood
title_sort fiction absolute and ethics: tom wolfe‘s back to blood
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2014
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7737/
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