The poetics and ethics of (un)grievability in contemporary Anglophone fiction / edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.

Variant title The poetics and ethics of ungrievability in contemporary Anglophone fiction
Variant title The poetics and ethics of grievability in contemporary Anglophone fiction
SeriesRoutledge studies in contemporary literature
Contents Introduction: The poetics and ethics of (un-)grievability in contemporary Anglophone fiction / Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega -- The presence of history. Trading relations, the evil of violence, and the ungrievability of the other in David Mitchell's The one thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Susana Onega -- Undermining the hierarchy of grief in Rachel Seiffert's A boy in winter / Paula Romo-Mayor -- Escaping "dead time": the temporal ethics of (un-)grievability in Ali Smith's The accidental / Katia Marcellin -- Grieving the Earth. "How bold to mix the dreamings": the ethics and poetics of mourning in Alexis Wright's The swan book / B©Łrbara Arizti -- From elegy to apocalypse: ecological grief and human grievability in Ben Smith's Doggerland / Angelo Monaco -- Outcasts. Ungrievable incest: ecology and kinship in Michael Stewart's Ill will / Maite Escuero-Al©Ưas -- (Un-)grieving celestial in Toni Morrison's Love / Mart©Ưn-Salv©Łn -- Contamination. What remains of (un-)grievability in Hollinghurst's and T©đib©Ưn's AIDS fiction / Jos©♭ M. Yebra-Pertusa -- Overcoming grief and salvaging memory: Rebecca Makkai's The great believers / Guilio Milone -- After the subject. Grieving for the subhuman in Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro / Sylvie Maurel -- The grievability of the non-human: Ian McEwan's Machines like me / Jean-Michel Ganteau.
Abstract "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-)grievableability, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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