TY  - CHAP
A1  - Wiemann, Dirk
T1  - Being Taught Something World-Sized
BT  - 'The Detainee's Tale as Told to Ali Smith and the Work of World Literature
T2  - The Work of World Literature
N2  - This paper reads ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith’s story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient’s openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith’s account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.
KW  - Ali Smith
KW  - anagogy
KW  - ethics
KW  - Refugee Tales
KW  - singularity
KW  - world literature
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-96558-011-4
SN  - 978-3-96558-012-1
SN  - 978-3-96558-013-8
SN  - 978-3-96558-022-0
U6  - https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_07
SN  - 2627-728X
SN  - 2627-731X
VL  - 2021
SP  - 149
EP  - 172
PB  - ICI Berlin Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -