The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler's work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.
| ISBN: | 9781032389752 |
| Publication date: | 27th December 2022 |
| Author: | Susana Onega, JeanMichel Ganteau |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler's work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction features in the following genres: Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction was written by Susana Onega, JeanMichel Ganteau and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un)grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction has 272 pages
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