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Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form. It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles written by specialists from various European countries and includes an interview with US novelist Jayne Anne Philips, conducted by her translator into French, Marc Amfreville, addressing her latest novel, Quiet Dell, through the victimhood-vulnerability prism. The corpus of primary sources on which the volume is based draws on various literary backgrounds in English, from Britain to India, through the USA. The editors draw on material from the ethics of alterity, trauma studies and the ethics of vulnerability in line with the work of moral philosophers like Emmanuel Levinas, as well as with a more recent and challenging tradition of continental thinkers, virtually unknown so far in the English-speaking world, represented by Guillaume Le Blanc, Nathalie Maillard, and Corinne Pelluchon, among others. Yet another related line of thought followed in the volume is that represented by feminist critics like Catriona McKenzie, Wendy Rogers and Susan Dodds.

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Author:   Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul Valéry, France) ,  Susana Onega (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415788298

ISBN 10:   0415788293
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   17 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"CONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau PART I: Loss of Affect and Victimization 1 And Yet: Figuring Global Trauma in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being Cathérine Bernard 2 ""The Willful Child"": Resignifying Vulnerability through Affective Attachments in Emma Donoghue’s Room Maite Escudero 3 The Construction of Vulnerability and Monstrosity in Slipstream:Tom McCarthy’s Remainder Merve Sarikaya-Sen PART II: Gender, Class, Race and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability 4 Erasing Female Victimhood: The Debate over Trauma and Truth Ángeles de la Concha 5 Vulnerable Ethics and Politics: Peter Ackroyd’s Rhetoric of Excess and Indirection in The Lambs of London Susana Onega 6 Reviving Ghosts: The Reversibility of Victims and Vindicators in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger Eileen Williams-Wanquet 7 A Dialectic of Trauma and Shame: The Politics of Dispossession in Gail Jones’s Black Mirror María Pilar Royo-Grasa PART III: The Politics of Visibility 8 The Humanism behind Jonathan Coe’s Narrative ""patchwork[s] of … coincidences"": Acting and Writing around Vulnerability Laurent Mellet 9 The (In)visibility of Systemic Victimization: A Reading of Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop Angela Locatelli 10 Shifting Visibilities: The Politics of Trauma and Vulnerability in Neil Bartlett’s Skin Lane Jean-Michel Ganteau PART IV: History and the Archive 11 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Vulnerable Shapes of Lisa Appignanesi’s Holocaust Narratives Maria Grazia Nicolosi 12 The Archive of a Missed Future: Vulnerability and the Poetics of Helplessness in Jayne Anne Philips’s Quiet Dell Marc Amfreville 13 Sympathetic Haunting: An Interview with Jayne Anne Philips Conducted by Marc Amfreville Index"

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  Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, (Spain)

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