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OverviewThe Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. The third decade of the twenty-first century is being marked by a polycrisis caused by various world crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and climate change leading to economic, geopolitical, environmental, health and security crises. Featuring 42 chapters, the collection examines crises through literary texts in relation to the environment, finance, migration and diaspora, war, human rights, values and identity, health, politics, terrorism, and technology. It illuminates the many faces of the current permacrisis as well as the multifarious crises of the past and their representation in literatures across ages and cultures—from the Viking wars, Black Death in mediaeval Europe, technology in ancient China and the crisis of power in Elizabethan England to imperial biopower in nineteenth-century India, the genocides in the twentieth century, upsurge of domestic violence during the Covid lockdown in Spain and the development of AI. The Companion connects diverse cultures, disciplines and academic traditions to show how and why literature, media, and art can voice all types of crises across times. It will be a key resource for students and researchers in a broad range of areas including literature, film studies, narrative studies, cultural studies, international politics and ecocriticism. Chapters: Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Silvia Pellicer-Ortín , Julia Kuznetski , Chiara BattistiPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge ISBN: 9781032424644ISBN 10: 1032424648 Pages: 490 Publication Date: 21 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Literature and crises across historical scales PART I – ADDRESSING CRISES THROUGH LITERATURE I.I Theoretical approaches to crises 1. What matters: Literature’s importance in times of crisis 2. The ethics and value of literature in times of crisis 3. Whose crisis? Framing 9/11 and the “war on terror” Michael C. Frank 4. Migration crisis in contemporary literature: A complicated journey through loss and hope. 5. War, migration and human rights: Strategies of voicing in contemporary fiction 6. Care crisis 7.Climate crisis and literature: Towards propositive narratives. I.II Literary genres and crises 8. Physical and spiritual crises in mediaeval and early English Renaissance drama. 9. Lines of exposure: Poetry and crisis 10. Life-writing practices: A way out of crisis? 11. Too burning for fiction? Women writers’ polemical essays in times of crisis. 12. The resilient frame: Graphic narratives and crises representation. 13. Ecosystems of Change in the Baltics: Decoloniality and storytelling in art. 14.‘When it changed’: Crisis in science fiction and speculative literature. PART II - CRISES IN LITERATURES ACROSS THE WORLD II.I Political and ideological crises in a historical perspective 15. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: literature as the art of mediation 16. “Fair Sequence and Succession”: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan succession crisis 17. The Devil in disguise: Writing the witch in Jacobean law and literature 18. Annus mirabilis and the rhyming of history 19. This is (not) a crisis. The ideological construction of crises (Sweden) 20. The Crisis of polarisation: The example of Jonathan Coe II.II War, migration and violence 21. The inexhaustible human vectors: war, crisis, literature—from Beowulf to Ian McEwan 22. Identity struggles and domestic turmoil in Ayşe Kulin’s Tutsak Güneş 23. The crisis of humanism, the Holocaust, and “The Jewish Dog” as a de/re-humanising figure in French literature. 24. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast (2021): A tool of hermeneutical justice? 25. Poetry as an anthropological trailblazer in situation of crisis: Russophone poets’ answer Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and catastrophic transformation of the political regime (2022—2024) 26. The year war did not begin: Representations of war in Estonian literature II.III Values and identity crises 27. One man’s dystopia is another woman’s utopia: Humanity revolutionised according to Stanisława Przybyszewska 28. Experiences, learning and consequences of the pandemic: a critical eye at Spanish literature through the text of Marta Sanz 29. Ukrainian literary imaginaries of the past after 1991: From substitution to restoration? 30. Liminal states of consciousness and crises of affect in contemporary Chinese literature 31.Transitory identities and heterotopic spaces of crisis in the narratives of contemporary Brazilian women writers 32. Crises down under: An approach to values and identity in contemporary Australian writing 33. Epic voices from Africa: Historical de-colonial re-writings II.IV. Environmental crises and biopolitics 34. “Art in crisis”: The novel in the age of digital media and global change 35. Biopolitics and crisis in South Asian literary representations of midwifery and surrogacy 36.Transecology repairs the capitalist metabolic rift? A reading of Chôsansei [Birth conscription] by Japanese novelist Tanaka Chôko II.V Technological crises and Posthumanism 37. Technological crisis and posthumanity in Chinese philosophy and literature 38. Crisis, in extremis: Posthuman vulnerability in Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville’s The Last Man 39. “If you are a man Winston, you are the last man:” Social crisis and the wounded storyteller in the dystopian universe of George Orwell’s Nineteen eighty-four 40. Transhumanism and posthumanism: The enhancement or the end of the human? 41. Literature at the crossroad in digital age: A case study at IULM University 42. The Pause Letter, the existential AI crisis and digital ideology IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSilvia Pellicer-Ortín is Associate Professor at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has co-edited several books including Trauma Narratives and Herstory (with Sonya Andermahr; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature (with María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro; Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Julia Kuznetski is Professor of English at the School of Humanities of Tallinn University, Estonia. Her work includes Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (co-edited with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; Routledge, 2019). Chiara Battisti is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona, Italy. Her publications include Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature (Frank and Timme, 2023), and Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature (co-edited with S. Fiorato, M. Nicolini, T. Perrin; De Gruyter, 2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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