Megan Cole Paustian

Humanitarian Fictions

Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781531505479
• ISBN-10: 1531505473
• Artikelnr.: 67654840

Autorenporträt

Megan Cole Paustian is Associate Professor of English at North Central College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The White Savior Narrative and the Third Sector Novel 1
1. The Moral Cause 33
2. The Emancipated African 67
3. The Universal Human 101
4. The Benevolent Gift 134
5. The Nongovernmental Organization 169
Epilogue: Rearticulating the Humanitarian Atlantic 207
Acknowledgments 215
Notes 219
Works Cited 251
Index 267