The Ethics of survival in contemporary literature and culture 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Freiburg, Rudolf
• Bayer, Gerd

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030834227

Series

Subject(s)

• ETHICS IN LITERATURE
• LITERATURE, MODERN
• SURVIVAL IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 356 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Survival: An Introductory Essay
Part I. Survival and the Group
2. The Visibility of Survival: Even the Dogs and Jon McGregors Ethics of Attention
3. "Survivors all" Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips
4. Feats of Survival: Refugee Writing and the Ethics of Representation
5. Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-slave Narrative: Sara Collinss Neo-gothic The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Part II. Survival and the Individual
6. "That was what all men became: techniques for survival" : The Paradoxical Notion of Survival in Julian Barness The Noise of Time
7. Vulnerability, Empathy, and the Ethics of Survival in Graham Swifts Wish You Were Here
8. Stories of Dis-ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives
9. Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude
10. Environmental Ethics of Survival: Case Study Analysis of I am Legend and The Revenant
Part III Survival and the Holocaust
11. Close Reading of a Title: On Survival in Auschwitz
12. Narrative Closure and the "Whew" Effect: The Ethics of Reading Narratives of Survival of the Holocaust
13. With All the Force of Literalness: Ruth Klugers Survivor Testimonies in Erwin Leisers We Were Ten Brothers and Thomas Mitscherlichs Journeys into Life
14. "The Four Brothers" : Claude Lanzmanns War Refugee Board Interviews

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