The Poetics of Insecurity turns the emerging field of literary
security studies upside down. Rather than tying the prevalence of
security to a culture of fear, Johannes Voelz shows how American
literary writers of the past two hundred years have mobilized
insecurity to open unforeseen and uncharted horizons of possibility
for individuals and collectives. In a series of close readings of
works by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Willa Cather,
Flannery O'Connor, and Don DeLillo, Voelz brings to light a
cultural imaginary in which conventional meanings of security and
insecurity are frequently reversed, so that security begins to
appear as deadening and insecurity as enlivening. Timely,
broad-ranging, and incisive, Johannes Voelz's study intervenes in
debates on American literature as well as in the interdisciplinary
field of security studies. It fundamentally challenges our existing
explanations for the pervasiveness of security in American cultural
and political life.
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