Literature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s Keeping Corner

• 영문명: Literature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s Keeping Corner
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 조슬린
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』제149호, 113~145쪽, 전체 33쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.06.30

영문 초록

Many works of literature are not conceptualized or recognized and classified as peace literature (PL). Reasons include unfamiliarity with the genre, limited intentional PL writing, and difficulty defining and delimiting it. To increase recognition of PL, this paper sets out to describe the genre and show how literature can be analyzed through a peace lens, focusing on a piece of historical literature for young adults by novelist Kashmira Sheth (2007), Keeping Corner. A close reading informed by a systematic conceptualization of peace shows that the author makes significant choices in the genre, content, and techniques employed to critically and creatively foreground and highlight peace as a transformative process and desirable outcome. In so doing, she contributes to peace in and through literature. This paper concludes faithful to its commitment to the tripartite of education, research, and action for peace, by summarizing, discussing the value of PL, advocating for its development and promotion, and briefly indicating ways of doing so.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Analysis

3. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

peace literature committed literature peace literature criticism literary promotion peace nonviolence praxis Keeping Corner