Episode 12: The Limits of Literary Empathy

Authors

Harper Sherwood-ReidFollow
Daimys E. Garcia, Binghamton University--SUNYFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2712-2257

Document Type

Sound Recording

Publication Date

Spring 2-25-2020

Keywords

comparative literature, empathy, memory, prosthetic memory

Abstract

In this episode, Harper talks with Daimys Garcia about when and where empathy fails as a means of disrupting genocide and other oppressions as it is invoked in and by literature. Through a critique of Alison Landsberg's concept of prosthetic memory and an invocation of Jorge Semprún's Literature or Life, Garcia considers the ways in which the notion of empathy can center the self even as it attempts to understand and see the other.

Recommended Citation

Sherwood-Reid, Harper and Garcia, Daimys E., "Episode 12: The Limits of Literary Empathy" (2020). Broadcasting World Literature. 29.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/broadcasting_world_literature/29