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

著者名：Onega, Susana (EDT)/Ganteau, Jean-Michel (EDT)

Routledge（2022/12/27発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032389769
• eISBN：9781000750263

Description

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-)grievablability, 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.

Table of Contents

 

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

Susana Onega

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

Paula Romo-Mayor

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

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

Angelo Monacarizti

Bárbara Arizti

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

Angelo Monaco

　

PART III

Outcasts

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

Maite Escuero-Alías

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

Paula Martín-Salván

　

PART IV

Contamination

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

José M. Yebra

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

Giulio Milone

PART IV

After the Subject

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

Sylvie Maurel

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

Jean-Michel Ganteau

　

INDEX