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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

"""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"

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Miriam Fernández-Santiago is Head of the English Department at the University of Granada (Spain), where she teaches courses on Literatures and Cultures in English at graduate and undergraduate level. Her current research interests focus on contemporary literature in English, critical posthumanism, vulnerability and disability studies. Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is a Senior Lecturer of English in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba (Spain) and a founding member of the Challenging Precarity network. With Leonor María Martínez-Serrano, she has recently co-edited Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-than-human World (Brill, 2021).

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