Research Catalog

Title

Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature / edited by Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández.

Publication

• New York : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fernández Santiago, Miriam
• Gámez-Fernández, Cristina M.

Description

xiii, 187 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have accentuated human vulnerability in many and different ways at a cross-national, and even cross-species level. Disability, technological, and ecological vulnerabilities are new foci of interest that add up to gender, precarity and trauma, among others, as forms of vulnerability in this volume. The literary visualization of these vulnerabilities might help raise social awareness of one's own vulnerabilities as well as those of others so as to bring about global solidarity based on affinity and affect. However, the literary representation of forms of vulnerability might also deepen stigmatization phenomena and trivialize the spectacularization of vulnerability by blunting readers' affective response towards those products that strive to hold their attention and interest in an information-saturated, global entertainment market.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in contemporary literature

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in contemporary literature.

Subject

Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-1805

ISBN

• 9781032130316
• 1032130318
• 9781032424057
• 1032424052
• 9781000827989 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000827873 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1348393924

Title

Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature / edited by Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in contemporary literature

Routledge studies in contemporary literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fernández Santiago, Miriam, editor.

Gámez-Fernández, Cristina M., editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Representing vulnerabilities in contemporary literature. New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781000827989 (OCoLC)1355565778

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1805