Constructing the enemy
Subtitle: empathy/antipathy in U.S. literature and law
By: Rajini Srikanth
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439903230; 9781439903247; 9781439903254
Subjects: Law and literature; Aversion in literature; American literature; Empathy in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The landscape of empathy; title: Literary imagination and American empathy; title: Deserving empathy? renouncing American citizenship; title: Hierarchies of horror, levels of abuse: empathy for the internees; title: Guantanamo: where lawyers connect with the "worst of the worst."