Troubled reading: ‘Sonny’s blues’ and empathy
Literator
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Troubled reading: ‘Sonny’s blues’ and empathy | |
| Creator | Kowalska, Eva | |
| Description | This article uses a discussion of Baldwin’s short story ‘Sonny’s blues’ as a means of exploring reading and approaches to drug literature. It considers the possibility of understanding Baldwin’s fictional text as a statement on reading social as well as subjective ‘problems’ as universal across contexts. Using conclusions gleaned from a detailed reading of the primary text, as well as the contributions of others to the field, it argues for the importance of reading, as audience and as scholars, with the capacity to allow for the transformation of problematic subjective experience such as drug addiction into artistic expression with value beyond its initial context. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2015-07-31 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v36i1.1148 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 36, No 1 (2015); 6 pages Literator; Vol 36, No 1 (2015); 6 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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