Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Examining vital cultural themes of vulnerability and precarity, this compelling volume offers fresh readings of a wide range of contemporary literary texts. As we imagine a post-Covid cultural landscape, Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature astutely identifies those central questions which urgently require scholarly consideration. The volume's critical engagement with vulnerability and the politics of representation makes it an essential companion to contemporary literary and cultural studies."

-Dr Charlotte Beyer, Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Gloucestershire, UK

"I highly recommend this timely, stimulating book which limns the effects of reading vulnerability in literary texts."

-Cheryl Stobie, Professor of English, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

"This is an important, rich, and fascinating collection of studies of literary portrayals of vulnerability. Informed by a wide-ranging and incisive set of theoretical approaches, the book makes significant steps towards better grasping the nature of vulnerability and the challenges in representing this aspect of the (trans)human condition."

-Patrick Brown, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

"The volume Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature (2023) is an extraordinary finding within the field of vulnerability studies as it explores, as the editors prove with an extensive and incisive bibliographical revision of works in the same field, the inherent problematic nature of both the conceptualization of the term vulnerability, and its representation in contemporary literary depictions of it, particularly emphasizing how these depictions might complicate its portrayal from ethical and aesthetic perspectives.......both experimented scholars on vulnerability studies and young researchers will find the introduction and the whole collection of chapters incredibly helpful as the volume discerns and exemplifies new attitudes towards the representation of vulnerability and the problematization of precisely these exact representations in very interesting and varied attitudes and fields within literary studies."

Alejandro Sanchez Cabrera, Nexus, vol 1: p. 108, 2023