Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds), The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Traditionally, elegy and other forms of literary mourning have focused on grieving the grievable, that is, those whose lives have been constructed as sufficiently valuable to merit collective bereavement. However, how has (postmodern) literature responded to the precarious subjects who, as Judith B...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2023
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Traditionally, elegy and other forms of literary mourning have focused on grieving the grievable, that is, those whose lives have been constructed as sufficiently valuable to merit collective bereavement. However, how has (postmodern) literature responded to the precarious subjects who, as Judith Butler puts it, fall last on the ‘hierarchy of grief’ and are thus declared ungrievable even before their death? What happens to those confined to ‘starvation, underemployment, legal disenfranchisem... |
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