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Format: 1 online resource (202 pages)

ISBN: 1-03-213032-6 , 1-000-82787-9 , 1-000-82798-4

Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Content: Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have accentuated human vulnerability in many and different ways at a cross-national, and even cross-species level. Disability, technological, and ecological vulnerabilities are new foci of interest that add up to gender, precarity and trauma, among others, as forms of vulnerability in this volume. The literary visualization of these vulnerabilities might help raise social awareness of one's own vulnerabilities as well as those of others so as to bring about global solidarity based on affinity and affect. However, the literary representation of forms of vulnerability might also deepen stigmatization phenomena and trivialize the spectacularization of vulnerability by blunting readers' affective response towards those products that strive to hold their attention and interest in an information-saturated, global entertainment market.

Note: Includes index. , 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. , Introduction -- Wolves -- Bees -- Cockroaches -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: "The Ones We Love Are Enemies of the State": Mourners and Trespassers in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2017) -- (In)visible Women at the Border -- Googling while Muslim: Mourning while Trespassing -- Conclusion: Toward Vulnerability in Resistance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Mapping Contemporary Hell: Vulnerability, Social Invisibility, and Spectral Mourning in Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs (2010) -- Introduction: The Post-Industrial City as Hell and the Derealization of the Ungrievable Other in Even the Dogs -- Narrative Voice and Spectral Mourning in Even the Dogs -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: The Logics of Vulnerability: Challenging the Ungrievable Différance of the Other in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane (2016) -- Introduction -- Vulnerability in the Binary Emplotment of Just Another Jihadi Jane -- Material Vulnerability of the Novel -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Technological Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Don DeLillo's The Silence (2020) -- Introduction -- Technology Dependence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Technology and Vulnerability -- The Silence: Posthuman Suffering and Datafication -- The Silence: Melancholia and the Loss of the Self -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: When Immortality Becomes a Burden: Transhuman Vulnerability and Self-Consciousness in William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) -- Dystopia, Cyborgs, and Transportable Human Consciousness -- From Empowerment to Vulnerability: Testing Transhuman Grounds and the Power of the Mind -- Numbness, Transhumanism, and Intertextual Dixie -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- Works Cited. , Chapter 11: Vulnerability and Risk in Larissa Lai's Critical Dystopias -- Introduction -- Risk and Vulnerability in a Wounded World -- Larissa Lai's Post-anthropocentric Feminist Critical Dystopias -- The Anthropocene in Fiction -- Environmental Vulnerability -- The Less-than-Human Other -- Open Endings, More than Human -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-03-242405-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-03-213031-8

Language: English