Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature identifies the new and old forms of vulnerability that find a representation in late 20th- and 21st-century literature in English in order to analyze and problematize their underlying aesthetic and ethical rationale, as well as their causes and effects on the reading public.
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature identifies the new and old forms of vulnerability that find a representation in late 20th- and 21st-century literature in English in order to analyze and problematize their underlying aesthetic and ethical rationale, as well as their causes and effects on the reading public.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Miriam Fernández-Santiago is Head of the English Department at the University of Granada (Spain), where she teaches courses on Literatures and Cultures in English at graduate and undergraduate level. Her current research interests focus on contemporary literature in English, critical posthumanism, vulnerability and disability studies. Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is a Senior Lecturer of English in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba (Spain) and a founding member of the Challenging Precarity network. With Leonor María Martínez-Serrano, she has recently co-edited Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-than-human World (Brill, 2021).
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List of Tables List of Contributors Preface by Janet Wilson Introduction Current Literary Representations of Vulnerability. Ethical and Aesthetic Concerns Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández Chapter 1 Precarity and the Global Dispossession of Indigeneity through Representations of Disability David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder Chapter 2 Performing Ceremony: Healing, Empowering, Re-Writing History in Alexis P. Gumbs' Dub (2020) Esther Sánchez-Pardo Chapter 3 The Visibility of Embeddings: Materiality, Vulnerability and Care in Cynan Jones's The Long Dry (2006) Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don't Play Dice: The Calculated Vulnerabilities of Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach (2017) Miriam Fernández-Santiago Chapter 5 Wolves, Bees, and Roaches: On the Nexus between Cultural Production and the Vulnerability of Humans and Non-Human Species Peter Arnds Chapter 6 "The ones we love are enemies of the state": Mourners and Trespassers in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2017) Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Chapter 7 Mapping Contemporary Hell: Vulnerability, Social Invisibility and Spectral Mourning in Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs (2010) Susana Onega Chapter 8 The Logics of Vulnerability: Challenging the Ungrievable Diffeìrance of the Other in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane (2014) Cristina M. Gaìmez-Fernández Chapter 9 Technological Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Don DeLillo's The Silence (2020) Sonia Baelo-Allué Chapter 10 When Immortality Becomes a Burden: Transhuman Vulnerability and Self-consciousness in William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) Francisco Collado-Rodríguez Chapter 11 Vulnerability and Risk in Larissa Lai's Critical Dystopias Mónica Calvo-Pascual Index
List of Tables List of Contributors Preface by Janet Wilson Introduction Current Literary Representations of Vulnerability. Ethical and Aesthetic Concerns Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández Chapter 1 Precarity and the Global Dispossession of Indigeneity through Representations of Disability David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder Chapter 2 Performing Ceremony: Healing, Empowering, Re-Writing History in Alexis P. Gumbs' Dub (2020) Esther Sánchez-Pardo Chapter 3 The Visibility of Embeddings: Materiality, Vulnerability and Care in Cynan Jones's The Long Dry (2006) Jean-Michel Ganteau Chapter 4 Pretty Dolls Don't Play Dice: The Calculated Vulnerabilities of Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach (2017) Miriam Fernández-Santiago Chapter 5 Wolves, Bees, and Roaches: On the Nexus between Cultural Production and the Vulnerability of Humans and Non-Human Species Peter Arnds Chapter 6 "The ones we love are enemies of the state": Mourners and Trespassers in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2017) Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Chapter 7 Mapping Contemporary Hell: Vulnerability, Social Invisibility and Spectral Mourning in Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs (2010) Susana Onega Chapter 8 The Logics of Vulnerability: Challenging the Ungrievable Diffeìrance of the Other in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane (2014) Cristina M. Gaìmez-Fernández Chapter 9 Technological Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Don DeLillo's The Silence (2020) Sonia Baelo-Allué Chapter 10 When Immortality Becomes a Burden: Transhuman Vulnerability and Self-consciousness in William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) Francisco Collado-Rodríguez Chapter 11 Vulnerability and Risk in Larissa Lai's Critical Dystopias Mónica Calvo-Pascual Index
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