|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
|
Buy Now
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,133
Discovery Miles 11 330
|
|
|
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
- This is the first book of its kind to review a series of
contemporary novels in English through the prism of the critical
and theoretical categories of grievability and ungrievability. In
the wake of Judith Butler's work on (un-)grievable groups, it
addresses the ways in which fiction in English since the 1990s
operates in its singularity to delve into the socio-cultural
construction of grievability, thereby refining and displacing the
more traditional categories of subalternity, inaudibility and
invisibility associated with the poetics of postmodernism. - It
also considers these categories in relation with the neighbouring
issues of visibility and invisibility, ultimately providing a
welcome prism though which to envisage such secular forms as the
obituary and the elegy. Such genres provide means to perform
mourning or, conversely, postulate an ethics of melancholia through
continuing attachment to the departed. - Central to the objectives
of this volume is the idea of providing an analysis of how Butler's
influential categories may be of specific use to literary scholars
all the more so as, in our post-trauma age, this traditional
function of literature has brought to the fore such aspects of
grievability as the influence of race, class, gender and/or sexual
orientation in the determination of the grievability or
ungrievability of the human beings exposed to individual or
collective violence. - More concretely, this book uses the prism of
(un-)grievability to contribute to the study of the ethics and
politics of literature, taking on board the ethics and politics of
form. It shows how some fictions delve into the lives of those
considered ungrievable and are submitted to invisibility and/or
illicit dead, while, in perpetrator trauma fictions, it is the
perpetrators themselves whose refusal or impossibility to
acknowledge the harm done to others under warfare conditions,
foster a relation of spectrality that transforms the unfairly
killed into ghosts who cannot be laid down to rest. - The essays
collected in this volume relate the relevance of the
above-mentioned critical and theoretical categories to various
cultural areas of the English-speaking world, charting the
singularities and common concerns of an array of contemporary texts
and themes relating to various grounds of relegation and
invisibilisation.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
