RESILIENCE AND ETHICS OF CARE AGAINST RACIAL CAPITALISM IN DAVID CHARIANDY’S BROTHER

• Authors: Cucarella-Ramon Vicent
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article reads David Chariandy’s elegiac novel Brother (2017) through the lens of resilience thinking in tandem with the ethics of care. Staged in a suffocating context of police violence and surveillance and the ideological premises of Canadian racial capitalism, the plot revolves around Francis and Michael, two Black Canadian brothers from Scarborough. The story unfolds Francis’s tragic death while trying to protect his friends from the police. To counteract the Anti-Blackness that is proffered by the nation-state, the novel opts for collaborative acts of resilience based on a compromise to care for one another. The ethics of care become a way to accommodate a compromised resilience that reveals the shortcomings of Canadian multiculturalism policies.

Keywords

EN

RESILIENCE; ETHICS OF CARE; RACIAL CAPITALISM; ANTI-BLACKNESS; VIOLENCE; DAVID CHARIANDY

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 77 – 87

Contributors

author

Cucarella-Ramon Vicent

• Department of English and German, Faculty of Philology, Universitat de València, Avenida Blasco Ibañez 32, 46010 València, Spain

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1547-2273

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.2.7