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The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction book cover

1st Edition

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Edited By Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau Copyright 2023
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
 

Contributors

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega

　PART I

The Presence of History

  1. Trading Relations, the Evil of Violence and the Ungrievability of the Other in David Mitchell’s The One Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    2.

    Susana Onega

  2. Undermining the Hierarchy of Grief in Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter

    3. Paula Romo-Mayor

  3. Escaping "Dead Time": The Temporal Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Ali Smith’s The Accidental

    4.

    Katia Marcellin

    　

    PART II

    Grieving the Earth

  4. "How bold to mix the Dreamings": The Ethics and Poetics of Mourning in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book

    5.

    Angelo Monacarizti

    Bárbara Arizti

  5. From Elegy to Apocalypse: Ecological Grief and Human Grievability in Ben Smith’s Doggerland

    6.

    Angelo Monaco

    　

    PART III

    Outcasts

  6. Ungrievable Incest: Ecology and Kinship in Michael Stewart’s Ill Will

    7. Maite Escuero-Alías

  7. (Un-)Grieving Celestial in Toni Morrison’s Love

    8.

    Paula Martín-Salván

    　

    PART IV

    Contamination

  8. What Remains of (Un-)Grievability in Hollinghurst’s and Tóibín’s AIDS Fiction

    9. José M. Yebra

  9. Overcoming Grief and Salvaging Memory: Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers

    10.

    Giulio Milone

    PART IV

    After the Subject

  10. Grieving for the Subhuman in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

    11.

    Sylvie Maurel

  11. The Grievability of the Non-Human: Ian McEwan’s Machines like Me

    12. Jean-Michel Ganteau

　

INDEX

Biography

Susana Onega is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza and a member of the Academia Europaea. She has written extensively on contemporary British literature, narrative poetics, ethics and trauma. She is currently editing with Jean-Michel Ganteau The Brill Handbook on Literary Criticism and Theory.

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. He is the editor of Études britanniques contemporaines and has authored The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Literature (Routledge, 2015) and The Ethics and Aesthetics of Attention in Contemporary British Literature (Routledge, 2023).

“The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction offers a strong and complete study of different modalities of (un-)grievability in a variety of settings that stands as both relevant and thought-provoking. The authors fulfil the task of providing a nuanced study of Butler’s critical concepts and the volume proves to be useful for anyone interested in trauma, vulnerability and grievability in a wide array of contexts based on timely issues. It succeeds in its epistemological task, and it constitutes a key contribution to the field.”

- PAULA RUSTARAZO GARZÓN, for Nexus 2023

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