Bearing witness to traumatic memory: An ethical approach to Ken liu’s speculative fiction “the man who ended history – a documentary”

Angelaki 27 (2):100-113 (2022)
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This article looks at the problematic witnessing envisioned in Chinese American writer Ken Liu’s speculative fiction “The Man Who Ended History – A Documentary,” in which the back-to-the-past virtu...

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10.1080/0969725x.2022.2046377

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The ethics of memory.Avishai Margalit - 2002 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Empathy.Karsten Stueber - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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