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- Literary Societies of Republican China.Xiaomei Chen,SusanDaruvala,Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker,Charles A. Laughlin,Mark Miller,Xiaobing Tang,Lawrence Wang-chi Wong,Shengqing Wu &Xueqing Xu (eds.) -2008 - Lexington Books.Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era . Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural complexity of literary groupings and the role of these social formations in literary production of the period.
- Commentary on 'Inquiry is no mere conversation'.Susan T. Gardner -2015 -Journal of Philosophy in Schools 2 (1):71-91.There is a long standing controversy in education as to whether education ought to be teacher- or student- centered. Interestingly, this controversy parallels the parent- vs. child-centered theoretical swings with regard to good parenting. One obvious difference between the two poles is the mode of communication. “Authoritarian” teaching and parenting strategies focus on the need of those who have much to learn to “do as they are told,” i.e. the authority talks, the child listens. “Non-authoritarian” strategies are anchored in the (...) assumption that youngsters ought to be encouraged to develop their natural interests and talents and hence that it is important to allow the children to do the talking and that adults listen. Both strategies seemed flawed due to the absence of the inherent wisdom of its opposing view. This chasm can be overcome. The Community of Inquiry, a pedagogical method used in Philosophy for Children, demands a method of communication which is able to bridge this gap. A Community of Inquiry is neither teacher-centered and controlled nor student-centered and controlled, but centered on and controlled by the demands of truth. Truth is absolutely essential to this method; it is only because of progress toward truth that participants are ultimately convinced of the fruitfulness of the process. Truth, however, is a hard taskmaster; it places severe restrictions on participants and puts exacting demands on the facilitator. These inherent restrictions and demands are too often underplayed, overlooked and sometimes seemingly overtly denied by those who, quite correctly emphasize that ultimately this method depends on maintenance and enhancement of student autonomy. This underrating of the role of the facilitator has led to a severe undervaluing of this otherwise brilliant pedagogical method, but worse, it has left novice teacher/facilitators ill prepared to utilize this method successfully. (shrink)
- 3. The Importance of Free Will.Susan Wolf -1993 - In John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza,Perspectives on moral responsibility. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 101-118.No categories
- Depending on care: Recognition of vulnerability and the social contribution of care provision.Susan Dodds -2007 -Bioethics 21 (9):500–510.ABSTRACT People who are paid to provide basic care for others are frequently undervalued, exploited and expected to reach often unrealistic standards of care. I argue that appropriate social recognition, support and fair pay for people who provide care for those who are disabled, frail and aged, or suffering ill health that impedes their capacity to negotiate daily activities without support, depends on a reconsideration of the paradigm of the citizen or and moral agent. I argue that by drawing on (...) the ideas of human vulnerability and dependency as central to our personhood, a more realistic conception of selves, citizens and persons can be developed that better recognises the inevitability of human dependency and the social value of care work. I also indicate the significance of this vulnerability‐focussed view for ethical evaluation of the emotional aspects of care relationships. (shrink)
- Free Speech in the Digital Age.Susan J. Brison &Katharine Gelber (eds.) -2018 - Oup Usa.This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the Internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech.No categories
- Return of Results in Participant-Driven Research: Learning from Transformative Research Models.Susan M. Wolf -2020 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48 (S1):159-166.Participant-driven research is a burgeoning domain of research innovation, often facilitated by mobile technologies. Return of results and data are common hallmarks, grounded in transparency and data democracy. PDR has much to teach traditional research about these practices and successful engagement. Recommendations calling for new state laws governing research with mHealth modalities common in PDR and federal creation of review mechanisms, threaten to stifle valuable participant-driven innovation, including in return of results.
- The Continuing Evolution of Ethical Standards for Genomic Sequencing in Clinical Care: Restoring Patient Choice.Susan M. Wolf -2017 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 45 (3):333-340.Developing ethical standards for clinical use of large-scale genome and exome sequencing has proven challenging, in part due to the inevitability of incidental or secondary findings. Policy of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has evolved but remains problematic. In 2013, ACMG issued policy recommending mandatory analysis of 56 extra genes whenever sequencing was ordered for any indication, in order to ascertain positive findings in pathogenic and actionable genes. Widespread objection yielded a 2014 amendment allowing patients to opt-out (...) from analysis of the extra genes. In 2015, ACMG published the amended policy, providing that patients could opt out of the full set of extra genes, but not a subset. In 2016, ACMG enlarged the set and indicated planned expansion of the roster of extra genes to include pharmacogenetic findings. ACMG policy does not protect the respect for patient choice that prevails in other domains of clinical medicine, where informed consent allows patients to opt in to desired testing. By creating an expanding domain of genomic testing that will be routinely conducted unless patients reject the entire set of extra tests, ACMG creates an exceptional domain clinical practice that is not supported by ethics or science. (shrink)No categories
- Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: An Area in Critical Need of a Feminist Psychological Anthropology.Susan Seymour -2004 -Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 32 (4):538-556.
- Toward a Theory of Process.Susan M. Wolf -1992 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (4):278-290.
- Dexter's Dark World.Susan Amper -2010 - In Fritz Allhoff & S. Waller,Serial Killers ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 103–113.This chapter contains sections titled: The Serial Killer as Superhero Why Do We Love Dexter? Dexter Morgan: Superhero Dexter and the Viewer Dexter vs. Dexter Dexter's Ethics Dexter's Dark World.No categories
- A technologically mediated phenomenon affecting human dynamics.Susan Corrine Aaron -2002 -World Futures 58 (1):81 – 99.This paper will suggest a mapping for human dynamics to see where emerging digital technology currently and could further affect the dynamics of the human, technological and natural, and the cultural forms that define them. Emerging technology will be seen to reveal and surpass the limitations of human measures built on human abilities and perception. and the social structures that are derived from them. The formation of this conceptual mapping is based on the premise that digital technology has the ability (...) to better relay and hence refine dynamics working at points where culture is created and necessitated in our perception of a shared reality. Technology thus alleviates the layering, representation, labelling, and reification notions of culture that are based in human perceptual limitations. Information as referential will be seen against the tendency of technology to offer succinct mediation and direct actions as a format for any change and application with refined cultural constructions. The mapping presents a notion of homeostasis or more bereft of balance at the point where the proximal dynamics of the unit, that is, the individual, is closely supported by the technology with a changing orientation to the dynamics of a natural environment. The notion of a person as an individual is also reconsidered in terms of technology and how this changing definition is part of how we conceptualize a balanced world. Nonlinear mapping rendered in a complex will be introduced to align these mixed dynamics. Complex is here defined as a concurrence of dynamics evident in shifts of change that act as a whole and where each action affects the whole. As measures are revealed so, too, will be the source of notions of linearity and nonlinearity; mapping; point of view as a basis of complexity; and evolutionary theory as a function of a labeling of cultural dynamics. (shrink)No categories
- Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah.Susan Ackerman (ed.) -1992 - Brill."By focusing on the forms of religious expression which the sixth-century prophets condemn, we can begin to apprehend the diversity which characterized exilic religion. Moreover, by recognizing the polemical nature of the prophetic critiques and by resolving to read these critiques without prophetic prejudice and instead with a non-judgmental eye, we can place ourselves in a position to re-evaluate the traditional descriptions of the sixth-century cult. Our task, then, is to read anew; our aim is to judge afresh. With this (...) goal in mind, we turn our attention to the major prophetic texts which will comprise our study: Jeremiah 7 and 44, Ezekiel 8, Isaiah 57, and Isaiah 65." - From the Introduction. (shrink)No categories
- Interdisciplinary Contributions to Public Health Law.Susan Allan,Sana Loue,Howard Markel,Charity Scott &Martin P. Wasserman -2004 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (S4):92-96.
- Why and How States are Updating Their Public Health Laws.Susan M. Allan,Benjamin Mason Meier,Joan Miles,Gregg Underheim &Anne C. Haddix -2007 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 35 (S4):39-42.In confronting the insalubrious ramifications of globalization, human rights scholars and activists have argued for greater national and international responsibility pursuant to the human right to health. Codified seminally in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the right to health proclaims that states bear an obligation to realize the “highest attainable standard” of health for all. However, in pressing for the highest attainable standard for each individual, the right to health has been ineffective in (...) compelling states to address burgeoning inequalities in underlying determinants of health, focusing on individual medical treatments at the expense of public health systems. This article contends that the paradigm of individual health, focused on a right to individual medical care, is incapable of responding to health inequities in a globalized world and thereby hampers efforts to operationalize health rights through public health systems. While the right to health has evolved in international discourse over time, this evolution of the individual right to health cannot address the harmful societal ramifications of economic globalization. Rather than relying solely upon an individual right to medical care, envisioning a collective right to public health – a right applied at the societal level to address underlying determinants of health – would alleviate many of the injurious health inequities of globalization. (shrink)
- A Philosophical Analysis of the Phenomenon of Multiple Personality in Connection with the Problem of Personal Identity.Susan Leigh Anderson -1974 - Dissertation, University of California, Los AngelesExport citation
Bookmark - A Picture of the Self Which Supports Moral Responsibility.Susan Leigh Anderson -1991 -The Monist 74 (1):43-54.Let us assume that we can hold at least some people morally responsible for at least some of their actions. What sort of picture of the self is compatible with that assumption? In particular, we need to ask the question of whether we can hold people responsible for actions which follow inevitably from their characters being what they are.
- Conflict Between Doctor and Patient.Susan M. Wolf -1988 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 16 (3-4):197-203.
- Bodies, Agency, and the Relational Self: A Pauline Approach to the Goals and Use of Psychiatric Drugs.Susan G. Eastman -2018 -Christian Bioethics 24 (3):288-301.In this essay, I use the theological anthropology of the apostle Paul as a diagnostic lens in order to bring into focus some implicit assumptions about human personhood in the goals and methods of treatment with psychotropic medications. I argue that Paul views the body as a mode of participation in larger relational matrices in both vulnerable and vital ways. He thus sees the self as constituted relationally rather than as fundamentally isolated and self-determining. Such an understanding of personhood yields (...) an account of human agency as co-constituted and freedom as interpersonally mediated and sustained. From this perspective, the proper goal for psychiatric medication is the removal of barriers to life-giving human connections; methods of care for persons in psychological distress may include medication, but they also require embodied personal encounter. (shrink)
- Can we end the feminist ‘sex wars’ now? Comments on Linda Martín Alcoff, Rape and resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation.Susan J. Brison -2020 -Philosophical Studies 177 (2):303-309.Feminist and queer theorists influenced by Michel Foucault have given analyses of sexual violence and of sexually violent pornography that are generally taken to be in striking opposition to those defended by radical feminists such as Catharine MacKinnon. In this commentary on Linda Martín Alcoff’s Rape and resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation, I suggest that these seemingly divergent analyses of sexual violence are more similar than they have appeared to be and I ask: Might this book help to (...) bring an end to the so-called ‘sex wars’ between the Foucauldians and the MacKinnonites that have been raging since the mid-1980s? (shrink)No categories
- White traders: The caveat emptor of women's studies.Susan Geiger &Jacqueline N. Zita -1985 -Journal of Thought 20 (3).
- Closed Time and Causal Loops: A Defence against Mellor.Susan Weir -1988 -Analysis 48 (4):203 - 209.
- Due process in ethics committee case review.Susan M. Wolf -1992 -HEC Forum 4 (2):83-96.
- Motherhood in the Context of Normative Discourse: Birth Stories of Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome.Susan L. Gabel &Kathy Kotel -2018 -Journal of Medical Humanities 39 (2):179-193.Using birth stories as our object of inquiry, this article examines the ways in which normative discourses about gender, disability and Down syndrome construct the birth stories of three mothers of children with Down syndrome. Their stories are composed of the mothers’ recollections of the first hours after birth as a time when their infants are separated from them and their postpartum needs are ignored. Together, their stories illustrate socio-cultural tropes that position Down syndrome as a dangerous form of the (...) “other” and mothers who give birth to children with Down syndrome as implicated in transgressing cultural norms. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Development as a Conversation.Susan Gaines -1992 -Business Ethics 6 (2):17-17.
- (1 other version)Handing Out Halos.Susan Gaines -1994 -Business Ethics 8 (2):20-24.
- (1 other version)Let's Make a Deal.Susan Gaines -1992 -Business Ethics 6 (6):17-17.
- (1 other version)The 4th Annual Business Ethics Awards.Susan Gaines -1992 -Business Ethics 6 (6):24-26.
- (2 other versions)Who Are These Ethics 'Experts' Anyway? (pt. 2).Susan Gaines -1996 -Business Ethics 10 (2):28-30.
- Christ and the Present Evil Age.Susan R. Garrett -2003 -Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 57 (4):370-383.What does it mean to claim Jesus as Lord over the principalities and powers in a world where oppression, terror, and death so often seem to have the last word? Jesus' “answer” is not an intellectual explanation but a charge and a benediction, to guide believers and empower them to persevere.
- The Patience of Job and the Patience of Jesus.Susan R. Garrett -1999 -Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 53 (3):254-264.In New Testament times, Job was considered a model of “steadfastness.” Job persevered by looking ahead to God's salvation. New Testament authors similarly portrayed Jesus as one who stood fast in time of trial, even unto death, thereby breaking the power of sin and strengthening Christians to standfast in their own trials.
- Resourceful teachers and teacher resources.Susan Wilks -2018 - In Gilbert Burgh & Simone Thornton,Philosophical Inquiry with Children: The development of an inquiring society in Australia. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.No categories
- A response to Purdy.Susan Dodds &Karen Jones -1989 -Bioethics 3 (1):35–39.
- It Is Time to Consult the Children: A Mother Who Faced Mitochondrial Replacement and Her Son Consider the Limits of Genetic Modification.Susan M. Wolf &Jacob S. Borgida -2020 -American Journal of Bioethics 20 (8):41-43.Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2020, Page 41-43.
- An explanation and analysis of how world religions formulate their ethical decisions on withdrawing treatment and determining death.Susan M. Setta &Sam D. Shemie -2015 -Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 10:6.This paper explores definitions of death from the perspectives of several world and indigenous religions, with practical application for health care providers in relation to end of life decisions and organ and tissue donation after death. It provides background material on several traditions and explains how different religions derive their conclusions for end of life decisions from the ethical guidelines they proffer.
- Janna Thompson’s Contributions to Philosophy.Susan Dodds -2023 -The Monist 106 (2):145-149.Professor Janna Thompson, FASSA, FAHA died in Melbourne on 24 June 2022. She retired in 2011 as Professor of Philosophy from La Trobe University after more.No categories
- One Kind of Speech Act: How Do We Know When We ’re Conversing?‘.Susan Kay Donaldson -1979 -Semiotica 28 (3-4).
- Damaskus-Aleppo: 5000 Jahre Stadtentwicklung in Syrien.Susan B. Downey,Beate Bollman &Philipp von Zabern -2002 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 122 (1):169.No categories
- The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West.Susan B. Downey &Inge Nielsen -2003 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (1):256.No categories
- Uruk Architektur IV: Von der Seleukiden- bis zur Sasanidenzeit.Susan B. Downey &Arno Kose -2003 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (1):188.No categories
- Heat, hostility, and immune function: The moderating effects of gender and demand characteristics.Susan Dubitsky,Ruth Weber &James Rotton -1993 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 31 (6):534-536.
- Christine de Pizan and the “menu peuple”.Susan J. Dudash -2003 -Speculum 78 (3):788-831.
- Frontmatter.Susan Dunn -2002 - In Jean-Jacques Rousseau,The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses. Yale University Press.No categories
- Philosophy and personal loss.Susan Dunston -2010 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24 (2):158-170.Two years after the death of his small son, Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote of the experience, "I cannot get it nearer to me" (CW 3:29). Most readers have been troubled by this remark, reading it as a sign that Emerson's relationship to grief and even to his son was disturbingly oblique, and the predominant response has been that it demonstrates he was detached, cold, and disconnected in the service of his transcendental philosophy.1 Such a response is grounded in the (...) tacit assumption that philosophy seems to be, or to call for, some intellectually grounded transcendence of the personal, whether the personal is whimsical or fatal. Emerson himself worried at times that he was too cold, too intellectual, even as .. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Beauvoir and feminism: interview and reflections.Susan J. Brison -2003 - In Claudia Card,The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 189--207.
- The Literary Work Is Not Its Text.Susan Wilsmore -1987 -Philosophy and Literature 11 (2):307-316.
- Genetic Testing and the Future of Disability Insurance: Ethics, Law & Policy.Susan M. Wolf &Jeffrey P. Kahn -2007 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 35 (S2):6-32.Genetic testing poses fundamental questions for insurance. Testing can predict a low probability of future illness and disability, which can help promote the insurability of individuals with a family history of genetic risk, but it can also invite insurers to reject applicants, increase premiums, exclude people with certain illnesses and disabilities, and otherwise adjust the underwriting processes for individuals with certain genotypes. In the workplace, these issues may cause employers who offer or pay for insurance to alter their hiring behavior, (...) either by selecting those with desirable genetic makeup or rejecting, dismissing, or reassigning those who carry an unwanted risk, ultimately threatening employability and the safety net that insurance is intended to provide. (shrink)
- Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains.Susan Dodds &Rachel A. Ankeny (eds.) -2016 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate. It focuses on ethical contests about research and their legitimate resolution, while addressing questions of political legitimacy. How should states make public policy on issues where there is ethical disagreement, not only about appropriate outcomes, but even what values are at stake? What constitutes justified, democratic policy in such conflicted domains? Case studies from Canada and Australia demonstrate that two countries sharing historical (...) and institutional characteristics can reach different policy responses. This book is of interest to policymakers, bioethicists, and philosophers, and will deepen our understanding of the interactions between large-scale socio-political forces and detailed policy problems in bioethics. (shrink)
- Diagnosis Difference : The Moral Authority of Medicine.Susan Sherwin -1998In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hypatia 16.3 (2001) 172-176 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine. By Abby L. Wilkerson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. In this compact volume, Abby Wilkerson makes several important contributions to the burgeoning literature of feminist (bio)ethics by providing substantive arguments in support of some of the key intuitive beliefs that are central to much feminist (...) bioethics thinking. Most centrally, she carefully fleshes out a feminist case for re-framing traditional bioethics approaches to the relation between health and justice. Particularly valuable is her richly detailed argument establishing the importance of bringing to the realm of health and health care Iris Marion Young's (1990) important insight that justice involves far more than questions of distribution.At the same time, Wilkerson demonstrates another major feminist tenet: that ethics and epistemology are intimately related. This connection is developed [End Page 172] through a second major theme in which she systematically tracks medicine's tendency to extend its accepted epistemic authority over physical ailments into a general authority over many other aspects of life. She documents examples of medicine's success in leveraging its scientific knowledge about certain aspects of the body into a broader ideological vision through which it claims epistemic authority in the personal and moral realm. By making explicit the gaps between medical knowledge and moral knowledge, she is able to challenge the moral authority and social power that are now granted to medical experts.While these arguments are important, they are not the whole story of the book, for its message is as much about process in bioethics as it is about conclusions. Wilkerson insists that the specific perspective of the theorist affects her/his reasoning. She demonstrates the importance of this fact by using her own distinct position as a bisexual woman to make visible the implicit acceptance and perpetuation of several ideological norms by those in dominant positions in both medicine and bioethics. The central method of the book is what she calls "material-semiotic." It involves the assumption that all human experience is mediated by culture, and the body (specifically the medicalized body) must be recognized as a political site subject to a variety of social values. We must, therefore, attend to the cultural meanings of health and illness and explore the ways that society labels and responds to these conditions. This requires investigation of the specific bodily (material) effects of these meanings in both individual and social experience.The book begins with the epistemological frame of the argument in which Wilkerson claims that medicine is deeply infected by the values and biases of the dominant culture, including its tendencies towards sexist, racist, classist, homophobic, and ablist attitudes. She explores ways in which medical theory and practice stigmatize bodily experiences common to women (in gynecology, obstetrics, and the treatment of victims of sexual or domestic violence). Medicalizing so many aspects of women's experience has the effect of obscuring women's subjective experiences and replacing them with medicine's normative perspectives of appropriate psychological norms. Moreover, the norm of femaleness promoted is a heterosexual, middle class, white variety such that other forms of social difference (e.g., non-white, non-heterosexual) must then also be medicalized and stigmatized; that is, the medical model requires explanations of difference that render pathological most variations on the privileged norm. Hence, alternative sexualities, like differences in class, abilities, race, and gender are interpreted through a medical lens that is thoroughly value-laden. In such ways, the epistemological authority granted to medicine is conflated into an unjustified form of moral authority. Although similar biases are common to every powerful social institution in the United States, they are especially pernicious within medicine because of the enormous influence it exerts in shaping knowledge about the nature of difference between social [End Page 173] groups. This immense social power may be directed towards reducing inequalities and promoting social justice, but, all too often, it is used to convey beliefs and norms that serve the interests of the privileged.Wilkerson's criticism is not reserved... (shrink)
- A Career Dedicated to Gesture, Language, Learning, and Cognition:Susan Goldin‐Meadow, 2021 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize.Martha Wagner Alibali &Susan Wagner Cook -forthcoming -Topics in Cognitive Science.Susan Goldin-Meadow is the 2021 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize. Goldin-Meadow's body of research addresses the roles of gesture in language creation, communication, learning, and cognition. In one major strand of her research, Goldin-Meadow has studied gestures in children who are not exposed to any structured language input, specifically, deaf children of hearing parents who do not expose their children to sign language. These children create a highly structured, language-like system with their hands—a homesign. In another major strand, Goldin-Meadow (...) has focused on the gestures that people produce along with speech. She has examined how gestures contribute to producing and comprehending language at the moment of speaking or signing, how gestures contribute to learning language and to learning other concepts and skills, and how gestures may actually constitute and change people's thinking. This topic collection is made up of papers that represent and extend these strands of Goldin-Meadow's work. This introductory article provides a brief biography of Goldin-Meadow, and it highlights ways in which the contributions to the topic collection exemplify several notable characteristics of Goldin-Meadow's body of work, including (1) a focus on multiple timescales of behavior and behavior change; (2) use of diverse methods, approaches, and populations; and (3) considerations of equity and inclusion, both in research and in educational and clinical practice. (shrink)
- Remembering Home: Nation and Identity in the Recent Writing of Doris Lessing.Susan Watkins -2007 -Feminist Review 85 (1):97-115.In the UK, the writing of Doris Lessing has frequently been associated with left–wing politics and the second–wave feminist movement. Critics have concentrated primarily on issues of class and gender and have focused their attention on novels published in the 1950s and 1960s. This essay suggests that Lessing's work is over–ripe for reassessment in relation to ideas from post-colonial theory. Her writing repeatedly addresses questions about national identity and its imbrications with ‘race’. These ideas intersect in complex ways with her (...) more familiar analysis of gender and class. This essay discusses Lessing's recent novel The Sweetest Dream (2001), which was widely read as an attack on the political idealism of the 1960s. It relates the novel to her collection of essays, African Laughter (1992), her recent essay on the situation in Zimbabwe, ‘The Jewel of Africa’ (2003) and the second volume of her autobiography, Walking in the Shade (1997). Zimbabwe (previously Southern Rhodesia) is of crucial importance in these works. The article explores how Lessing makes use of notions of city, home and memory that can be instructively compared with some of Toni Morrison's ideas in her novel Beloved (1987) and the essays ‘Home’ (1998) and ‘The Site of Memory’ (1990). Lessing revises the notion of ‘home’ so that it becomes capable of both recognizing racial and national differences and moving outside them. She also interprets memory as productive for the individual and the nation only when it becomes, as Morrison would say, ‘rememory’: when it can acknowledge the importance of imagination in dealing with trauma and thus suggest the fluctuating, mobile status of identity. The article demonstrates that similar ideas about home and memory are present in her fiction, essay and autobiography, indicating that her intention is to explore generic classification and blur the boundaries between different methods of writing personal and political history. Lessing's work strongly suggests the possibility that apparently ‘fictional’ writings may be more fruitful than ostensibly factual ones in allowing individuals and nations to make sense of their immediate pasts. (shrink)No categories
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