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Fiction in the Age of Risk (Paperback)
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When Ulrich Beck theorised a 'Risk Society' (Risikogesellschaft) in
1986, the threat of global annihilation through nuclear war
remained uppermost in the minds of his readership. Three decades
on, questions about whether the sensation of risk has mutated or
evolved in the intervening period, and whether fiction exhibits
evidence of such a change, remain just as urgent. While the
immediate risk of the Cold War's 'mutually assured destruction'
through World War Three seems to have ebbed, the paradox is that
the social goal of safety and security seem to elude attainment.
Global financial collapse, Islamic terrorism, human-authored
climate change, epidemic disease outbreaks, refugee crises and the
chronic erosion of the welfare state now preoccupy those in the
developed world and provide the horizons for contemporary anxieties
worldwide. The contributions to this volume explore these themes,
locating their significance and representation in a diverse range
of contemporary literature, film, and comics, from China,
Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Pakistan, and the United
States. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Textual Practice.
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