This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction,
considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics,
ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central
issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have
increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of
vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic and
political forms of precariousness and dispossession. Informed by
trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book addresses
such issues by focusing on the literary evocations of vulnerability
and analyzing various aspects of vulnerable form as represented and
performed in British narratives, from contemporary classics by
Peter Ackroyd, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Ian McEwan, and Jeanette
Winterson, to less canonical texts by Nina Allan, Jon McGregor, and
N. Royle. Chapters on romance, elegy, the ghost story, and the
state-of-the-nation novel draw on a variety of theoretical
approaches from the fields of trauma studies, affect theory, the
ethics of alterity, the ethics of care, and the ethics of
vulnerability, among others. Showcasing how the contemporary novel
is the privileged site of the expression and performance of
vulnerability and vulnerable form, the volume broaches a poetics of
vulnerability based on categories such as testimony, loss,
unknowing, temporal disarray, and performance. On top of providing
a book-length evocation of contemporary fictions of vulnerability
and vulnerable form, this volume contributes significantly to
considerations of the importance of Trauma Studies to Contemporary
Literature.
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