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1 online resource (202 pages)
ISBN:
9781000827989
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Ser.
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Current Literary Representations of Vulnerability. Ethical and Aesthetic Concerns -- Introduction: Vulnerability as an Academic Conundrum -- Literary Representations of Vulnerabilities: A Short Appraisal -- The Volume Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1: Precarity and the Global Dispossession of Indigeneity through Representations of Disability -- Introduction: Indigenous Models of Precarious Embodiment under American Colonialism -- Colonialism's Rapacious Bodily Intimacies -- Non-Human Animal Holocausts -- "Our Profession is to Make Holocausts:" Collecting the Survivors and Recording the Dead -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Performing Ceremony: Healing, Empowering, Re-Writing History in Alexis P. Gumbs' Dub (2020) -- Introduction -- Performing Ceremony -- Reading Dub: Vulnerability, Memorialization, and the Way to Healing -- Empowering: Why Sylvia Wynter's Thinking as Frame and Companion? -- Re-writing, Dubbing History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Visibility of Embeddings: Materiality, Vulnerability, and Care in Cynan Jones's The Long Dry (2006) -- Introduction -- Illness, Toxicity, and Accident -- Vibrant Materiality -- Relationality and Care -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Pretty Dolls Don't Play Dice: The Calculated Vulnerabilities of Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach (2017) -- Introduction -- Human Vulnerability as Narrative Prosthesis -- The Vulnerable Text as a Calculated Risk -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Wolves, Bees, and Roaches: On the Nexus between Cultural Production and the Vulnerability of Humans and Non-Human Species.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781032130316
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032130316
Sprache:
Englisch
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