Fiction in the Age of Risk

ISBN-13: 9781138494275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 150 str.

Tony Hughes-D'Aeth; Golnar Nabizadeh

Opis

This book considers the theme of risk in contemporary literature, film, and comics, examining themes including risk and financial collapse, radicalization narratives, intimacy, migration, YA climate fiction, and perpetrator narratives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Spis treści

Introduction: Fiction in the age of risk  1. The powers of exposure: risk and vulnerability in contemporary British fiction  2. Evaluating risk in perpetrator narratives: resituating Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones as historical fiction  3. Narrating risk: the financial thriller film during the U.S. recession  4. John Lanchester’s Capital: financial risk and its counterpoints  5. Framing risk in China: precarity and instability in the stories of Li Yiyun  6. Risking intimacy in contemporary South African fiction  7. Visualising risk in Pat Grant’s Blue: xenophobia and graphic narrative  8. Vulnerable lives: the affective dimensions of risk in young adult cli-fi  9. Jihadi fiction: radicalisation narratives in the contemporary novel