Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9781032268446 / Angielski

Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández; Miriam Fernández-Santiago

Opis

This book specialists from different literary and filmic studies explore the conflicting theoretical grounds that characterize the ontology of vulnerability as either a state of passivity, victimhood, and helplessness and/or as forms of human and non-human embodiment.

Recenzje

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film is a mind-expanding voyage into vulnerability, the many-sided keyword of our times.

-Dr Elisabetta Marino, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Rome, Italy

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film is a highly significant collection of essays that reassess conceptualizations of vulnerability, linking it with material aspects of the body and addressing the challenges that representing vulnerabilities posit for artists, audiences and readers.

Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Full Professor of English, University of Bonn, Germany

This exciting collection contributes vitally to the emerging field of vulnerability studies. By examining diverse representations in literature and visual culture, it argues that ambiguous experiences of embodied vulnerability can be resignified to enable agency. Culturally interventionist, these essays advocate a vulnerability ethics involving care and relationality and so challenge entrenched conditions of precarity.

Janet M. Wilson, Emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton UK

Spis treści

List of Contributors

Preface: Framing Vulnerable Embodiments as Precarity’s Product

David T. Mitchell

Introduction: An Ecology of Embodied VulnerAbility—Literary and Filmic Representations across the Globe
Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Miriam Fernández-Santiago

Chapter 1

Vulnerable Masculinity: Emotional Transcendence and the Re-Framing of the Bushidô in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy

Maria Grajdian

Chapter 2

Norma Desmond and Fedora Performing Vulnerability: Masking Age, Gendering Bodies, Transforming Selves

Marta Miquel-Baldellou

Chapter 3

Vulnerable Motherhood: The Precarious Mother in Unlikely Angel (2005) and Captive (2015)

Miriam Borham-Puyal

Chapter 4

Vulnerable Children: Collective Resistance in Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)

Andrés Buesa

Chapter 5

Vulnerability on Contemporary Stage: Embodying Gendered Precarity in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott (2015) and In the Pipeline (2010)

Susana Nicolás Román

Chapter 6

Poetics of Vulnerability: Stéphane Bouquet and Marie-Claire Bancquart Writing as Exploration of the Limits of Collective and Singular Bodies

Nicholas Hauck

Chapter 7

Vulnerable Encounters: Family Wounds, Illness, and Pain in Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom (2020)

Paula Barba Guerrero

Chapter 8

Vulnerability through the Invulnerable Transhuman Lens: Ethics and Disruption of Emotional Connections and Mental Affections in Maniac (2018)

Ana Chapman

Chapter 9

In Praise of Small Things: Vulnerable (Yet Resilient) Bodies in Madeline Bassnett’s Under the Gamma Camera (2019)

Leonor María Martínez Serrano

Chapter 10

Recognizing Vulnerabilities in Rural Spain: Political and Literary Forms of Resistance

McKew Devitt

Chapter 11

Vulnerability, (In)Hospitable Politics, and Ethical Encounters in The Visitor (2007)

Luisa María González Rodríguez

Chapter 12

Recording One’s Vulnerability: Refugees’ Experiences in the Auto-Documentaries #MyEscape (2016), Chauka Please Tells Us the Time (2017), and Midnight Traveler (2019)

Beatriz Pérez Zapata and Víctor Navarro-Remesal

Index

O autorze

Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is Senior Lecturer of English in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba (Spain) and a founding member of the Challenging Precarity network. She has recently co-edited Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2023).

Miriam Fernández-Santiago is Senior Lecturer of English and Head of the English Department at the University of Granada (Spain), where she teaches courses on Literatures and Cultures in English at graduate and undergraduate levels. Her current research interests focus on contemporary literature in English, critical posthumanism, vulnerability, and disability studies.