Narrating "precariousness"
Subtitle: modes, media, ethics
By: Barbara Korte, Frédéric Regard (Eds.).
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 437; Anglistische Forschungen -- Heft 437.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9783825362133
Subjects: Point of view (Literature); First person narrative; Multiple person narrative; Narration (Rhetoric); Disasters in literature; Science fiction; Psychological aspects; Englisch; Literatur; Ungewissheit
Description: "Lives in precarious conditions are on the edge and out of balance. They call for recognition and reaction, but they also cause discomfort for those who regard them. This collection of articles focuses on how such lives can - or cannot - be represented, especially in narrative modes. Since Judith Butler's seminal study 'Precarious Life', the term 'precariousness' has proliferated in scholarly debate, with various shades of meaning. The contributions to this volume aim to clarify the concept of precariousness as well as related notions, and to explore their significance in various areas of human suffering. The second aim is to analyse the different ways in which precariousness intersects with issues of narrative representation in a wide range of media and genres."--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrating 'precariousness': modes, media and ethics / Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard; title: part one. Precarious worlds. Precarious selves in contemporary British war novels / Lena Steveker; title: The texture of devastation: Philip Jones Griffiths's Vietnam trilogy / Barbara Kowalczuk; title: Facing the feral child: precarious futures in three popular science-fiction narratives / Rudolph Glitz; title: Narrating radioactivity: representations of nuclear disasters and precarious lives in comic books and graphic novels / Stephanie Hoppeler and Gabriele Rippi; title: The precariousness of postcolonial geographies: Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide / Ellen Dengel-Janic; title: part two. Cynicism and the fringes of the human: Mike Leigh's Naked / Stephan Laqué; title: Hearing Eminem / Jagna Oltarzewska; title: Vulnerability, literature and ethics in Sapphire's Push / Marc Amfreville; title: A survival kit: the poetics of precariousness in Lyn Hejinian's "Happily" / Hélène Aji; title: "I am the place of my wound": precarious lives on the contemporary English stage / Elisabeth Angel-Perez; title: Index; title: Contributors.