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Author:   Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández ,  Miriam Fernández-Santiago
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781032268446

ISBN 10:   1032268441
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   14 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Contributors Preface: Framing Vulnerable Embodiments as Precarity’s Product David T. Mitchell Introduction: An Ecology of Embodied VulnerAbility—Literary and Filmic Representations across the GlobeCristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Miriam Fernández-Santiago Chapter 1 Vulnerable Masculinity: Emotional Transcendence and the Re-Framing of the Bushidô in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy Maria Grajdian Chapter 2 Norma Desmond and Fedora Performing Vulnerability: Masking Age, Gendering Bodies, Transforming Selves Marta Miquel-Baldellou Chapter 3 Vulnerable Motherhood: The Precarious Mother in Unlikely Angel (2005) and Captive (2015) Miriam Borham-Puyal Chapter 4 Vulnerable Children: Collective Resistance in Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) Andrés Buesa Chapter 5 Vulnerability on Contemporary Stage: Embodying Gendered Precarity in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott (2015) and In the Pipeline (2010) Susana Nicolás Román Chapter 6 Poetics of Vulnerability: Stéphane Bouquet and Marie-Claire Bancquart Writing as Exploration of the Limits of Collective and Singular Bodies Nicholas Hauck Chapter 7 Vulnerable Encounters: Family Wounds, Illness, and Pain in Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom (2020) Paula Barba Guerrero Chapter 8 Vulnerability through the Invulnerable Transhuman Lens: Ethics and Disruption of Emotional Connections and Mental Affections in Maniac (2018) Ana Chapman Chapter 9 In Praise of Small Things: Vulnerable (Yet Resilient) Bodies in Madeline Bassnett’s Under the Gamma Camera (2019) Leonor María Martínez Serrano Chapter 10 Recognizing Vulnerabilities in Rural Spain: Political and Literary Forms of Resistance McKew Devitt Chapter 11 Vulnerability, (In)Hospitable Politics, and Ethical Encounters in The Visitor (2007) Luisa María González Rodríguez Chapter 12 Recording One’s Vulnerability: Refugees’ Experiences in the Auto-Documentaries #MyEscape (2016), Chauka Please Tells Us the Time (2017), and Midnight Traveler (2019) Beatriz Pérez Zapata and Víctor Navarro-Remesal Index

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Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film is a mind-expanding voyage into vulnerability, the many-sided keyword of our times. -Dr Elisabetta Marino, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Rome, Italy

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film is a mind-expanding voyage into vulnerability, the many-sided keyword of our times. -Dr Elisabetta Marino, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Rome, Italy

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Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is Senior Lecturer of English in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba (Spain) and a founding member of the Challenging Precarity network. She has recently co-edited Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2023). Miriam Fernández-Santiago is Senior Lecturer of English and Head of the English Department at the University of Granada (Spain), where she teaches courses on Literatures and Cultures in English at graduate and undergraduate levels. Her current research interests focus on contemporary literature in English, critical posthumanism, vulnerability, and disability studies.

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