Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics

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Attribute Name	Values
Creator	Davison, Neil R.
Abstract	This article examines the influence of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethical aspects of the life and work of André Schwarz-Bart. The essay is framed through recent re-interest in Schwarz-Bart’s collaborative works with his wife, Simone, as a bridge between Holocaust and postcolonial studies. The publications, arguments, and key points of intersubjective ethics in Levinas’s work that Schwarz-Bart encountered are carefully examined. The argument confronts the critical reception of Levinas’s concepts of the feminine and dwelling to demonstrate how, when seen through a Judaic lens, these notions form a new gendered reading of Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The article is copyrighted by the Purdue Research Foundation and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It can be found at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_fiction_studies/.
Resource Type	Article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2014.0048
Date Available	2015-02-23T22:23:38+00:00
Date Issued	2014
Citation	Davison, N. R. (2014). Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 60(4), 767-795.
Journal Title	MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
Journal Volume	60
Journal Issue/Number	4
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55185
Accessibility Feature	unknown