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Woman, Sacrifice, and the Limits of Sympathy
Published date: 05 Jun 2012
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In both Lu Xun’s “The New Year’s Sacrifice” (1924) and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948), a woman is made a sacrificial victim by her village community, one symbolically and one literally. Using the two stories as my cross-cultural examples, I ponder the connection between the failure of sympathy and patriarchal sacrificial logic, and ask what literature can do to help create the condition of possibility for moral agency.
Key words： sympathy; empathy; moral agency; literature; woman; Lu Xun; Shirley Jackson
Haiyan Lee . Woman, Sacrifice, and the Limits of Sympathy[J]. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2012 , 6(2) : 184 -197 . DOI: 10.3868/s010-001-012-0011-1
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