Precarity in contemporary literature and culture. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Precarity in contemporary literature and culture. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Precarity in contemporary literature and culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Emily J. Hogg, Peter Simonsen.
- Editors:
- Hogg, Emily J
Simonsen, Peter - Contents:
- List of figuresList of contributors Acknowledgements IntroductionPart One: FeelingChapter 1 – Anxious reading: the precarity novel and the affective class – Liam Connell, University of Brighton, UKChapter 2 – Anxiety in the precariat: The affects of class in James Kelman's fiction – Mathies G. Aarhus, University of Southern DenmarkChapter 3 – Performing precarity: threatening the audience in Gary Owen's Iphigenia in Splott – Peter Simonsen, University of Southern DenmarkPart Two: BodiesChapter 4 – Imagined sovereignty: mapping and resisting precarity in Indira Allegra's Woven Account – Marianne Kongerslev, Aalborg University, DenmarkChapter 5 – Precarious Bodies on the Move, Precarious Bodies Under Attack – Katharina Pewny, previously Ghent University, Belgium and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, doctoral researcherChapter 6 – Death knells and dead ends: Latent futurity in Masande Ntshanga's The Reactive and Mohale Mashigo's 'Ghost Strain N' – Sophy Kohler, University of Southern DenmarkPart Three: TimeChapter 7 – Periodization and precarious labour: the work of genre in La La Land and Sorry to Bother You' – Alissa G. Karl, State University of New York, Brockport, USAChapter 8 - Substanceless Subjectivity: From Proletarianization to Precarization in British Experimental Fiction – Benjamin Kohlmann, University of Regensburg, GermanyChapter 9 - The Future is a Ghost': Precarity, Anticipation and Retrospection in Anneliese Mackintosh's 'Limited Dreamers' and Lee Rourke's Vulgar Things –List of figuresList of contributors Acknowledgements IntroductionPart One: FeelingChapter 1 – Anxious reading: the precarity novel and the affective class – Liam Connell, University of Brighton, UKChapter 2 – Anxiety in the precariat: The affects of class in James Kelman's fiction – Mathies G. Aarhus, University of Southern DenmarkChapter 3 – Performing precarity: threatening the audience in Gary Owen's Iphigenia in Splott – Peter Simonsen, University of Southern DenmarkPart Two: BodiesChapter 4 – Imagined sovereignty: mapping and resisting precarity in Indira Allegra's Woven Account – Marianne Kongerslev, Aalborg University, DenmarkChapter 5 – Precarious Bodies on the Move, Precarious Bodies Under Attack – Katharina Pewny, previously Ghent University, Belgium and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, doctoral researcherChapter 6 – Death knells and dead ends: Latent futurity in Masande Ntshanga's The Reactive and Mohale Mashigo's 'Ghost Strain N' – Sophy Kohler, University of Southern DenmarkPart Three: TimeChapter 7 – Periodization and precarious labour: the work of genre in La La Land and Sorry to Bother You' – Alissa G. Karl, State University of New York, Brockport, USAChapter 8 - Substanceless Subjectivity: From Proletarianization to Precarization in British Experimental Fiction – Benjamin Kohlmann, University of Regensburg, GermanyChapter 9 - The Future is a Ghost': Precarity, Anticipation and Retrospection in Anneliese Mackintosh's 'Limited Dreamers' and Lee Rourke's Vulgar Things – Emily J. Hogg, University of Southern DenmarkChapter 10 – 'Make it Now': poetry, precarity, and security in Jorie Graham and Ghayath Almadhoun – Walt Hunter, Clemson University, USAChapter 11 - Finding time in common: speculative fiction and the precariat in Robinson's New York 2140 – Bryan Yazell, University of Southern DenmarkIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 809.93355
Uncertainty in literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350166721
9781350166714 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350166707
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