The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.
Survival: An Introductory Essay
págs. 1-45
The Visibility of Survival: Even the Dogs and Jon McGregor's Ethics of Attention
págs. 49-67
"Survivors all": Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips
págs. 69-87
Feats of Survival: Refugee Writing and the Ethics of Representation
págs. 89-110
Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-slave Narrative: Sara Collins's Neo-gothic: The Confessions of Frannie Langton
págs. 111-130
"That was what all men became: techniques for survival": The Paradoxical Notion of Survival in Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time
págs. 133-165
págs. 167-186
Stories of Dis-ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives
págs. 187-202
Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude
págs. 203-220
Environmental Ethics of Survival: Case Study Analysis of I am Legend and The Revenant
págs. 221-243
Close Reading of a Title: On Survival in Auschwitz
págs. 247-264
Narrative Closure and the "Whew" Effect: The Ethics of Reading Narratives of Survival of the Holocaust
págs. 265-290
With All the Force of Literalness: Ruth Klüger's Survivor Testimonies in Erwin Leiser's We Were Ten Brothers and Thomas Mitscherlich's Journeys into Life
págs. 291-309
"The Four Brothers": Claude Lanzmann's War Refugee Board Interviews
págs. 311-331
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