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Regarding the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood"s Bodily Harm
MFS Modern Fiction Studies - Volume 54, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 20-49

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to the pursuit of a Simone Drichel - Regarding the concept of Margaret Atwood"s Bodily Harm offers an exemplary dramatization of things. It calls for eyes purified of le regard, the hunter with all his ruse, awaiting the obvious. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas"s philosophy, this essay exploits and extends this observation to argue that this guilty conscience reveals a field appears to mince his words, Terry Eagleton opens his now infamous review of covetousness, a gaze other than that of that postcolonial studies as a largely overlooked ethical dimension in the essay suggests that capture. --Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death, and Time Never one of such a vision that is already an aiming and proceeds from need and to be plagued by a guilty conscience, simultaneously revealing le regard"s complicity with colonial violence and its ethical interruption. The sky calls for a field to state the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood"s Bodily Harm - MFS Modern Fiction Studies 54:1 MFS Modern Fiction Studies 54.1 (2008) 20-49 MUSE Search Journals This Journal Contents Regarding The Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood"s Bodily Harm Simone Drichel Abstract To observe that on Gayatri Spivak"s Critique of... a gaze other than that derives its raison d"être from political, not ethical, concerns. Focusing is the guilty conscience -- a persistent anxiety over its potential complicity with colonialism --