Even though the literary trope of the flaneur has been proclaimed
'dead' on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in
contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how
flanerie takes a belated 'ethical turn' in its more recent
manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity.
Drawing on Michel Foucault's writings on the 'aesthetics of
existence' as well as Judith Butler's notion of precariousness as
conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign
models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of
flanerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter
Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan's Saturday,
Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold, Teju Cole's Open City, Dionne
Brand's What We All Long For and Robin Robertson's The Long Take,
Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence
of flanerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms
while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means
of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flanerie and
the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus
shows that the flanerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique
in post-postmodern times.
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