Introducing dialogic freedom -- A father begs for his son's corpse in The Iliad -- Passion and freedom in Dante's Inferno -- Deaf to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice -- The virtuosity of Satan in Paradise Lost -- Shaping the master's vision in "benito cereno" -- The grand inquisitor's silent Christ -- Goading a reader of "in the penal colony" -- Freedom under impossible conditions in Beloved -- Freedom under construction in a polarized world
Summary
This book invites us to question our infatuation with freedom as autonomy and enlightenment and introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. It presents riveting moments of decision in literature from Homer's Iliad to Morrison's Beloved, urging us to read for and with dialogic freedom, and inspiring us to feel freer by abandoning our polarized enclaves in order to see better from the perspectives of others
