Abstract
My essay focuses on Chris Cleave's novel Little Bee/The Other Hand as a fertile ground for exploring the ethical and political grounds on which cross-cultural encounters take place. Bringing Sara Ahmed's theory of the cultural politics of emotion in conjunction with Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics, I argue that, in addition to underscoring one's responsibility for, or in the face of the other, Cleave taps into the novel's potential for transforming consciousness by mobilizing what Ahmed has called “just emotions”: those emotions that show not only the effects of injustice, in the form of scars, but also open up the possibility of healing and recovery.
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