Narrating "precariousness" : modes, media, ethics / Barbara Korte, Frédéric Regard (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korte, Barbara, 1957- editor.

Regard, Frédéric, editor.

Series:

Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 437.

Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 437

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Point of view (Literature).

First person narrative.

Multiple person narrative.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Disasters in literature.

Science fiction--Psychological aspects.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

138 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Winter, 2014.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Narrating 'precariousness': modes, media and ethics / Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard

part one. Precarious worlds. Precarious selves in contemporary British war novels / Lena Steveker

The texture of devastation: Philip Jones Griffiths's Vietnam trilogy / Barbara Kowalczuk

Facing the feral child: precarious futures in three popular science-fiction narratives / Rudolph Glitz

Narrating radioactivity: representations of nuclear disasters and precarious lives in comic books and graphic novels / Stephanie Hoppeler and Gabriele Rippl

The precariousness of postcolonial geographies: Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide / Ellen Dengel-Janic

part two. Precarious selves. Cynicism and the fringes of the human: Mike Leigh's Naked / Stephan Laqué

Hearing Eminem / Jagna Oltarzewska

Vulnerability, literature and ethics in Sapphire's Push / Marc Amfreville

A survival kit: the poetics of precariousness in Lyn Hejinian's "Happily" / Hélène Aji

"I am the place of my wound": precarious lives on the contemporary English stage / Elisabeth Angel-Perez

Index

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783825362133

3825362132

OCLC:

873518914