Fiction in the Age of Risk

Tony Hughes-D'Aeth is a Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886-1888 (2001) and Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (2017). Golnar Nabizadeh is Lecturer in Comics Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her book, Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels, is forthcoming with Routledge, and she has published on the work of Marjane Satrapi, Shaun Tan, Alison Bechdel, among others.

• Introduction: Fiction in the age of risk 1. The powers of exposure: risk and vulnerability in contemporary British fiction 2. Evaluating risk in perpetrator narratives: resituating Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones as historical fiction 3. Narrating risk: the financial thriller film during the U.S. recession 4. John Lanchester’s Capital: financial risk and its counterpoints 5. Framing risk in China: precarity and instability in the stories of Li Yiyun 6. Risking intimacy in contemporary South African fiction 7. Visualising risk in Pat Grant’s Blue: xenophobia and graphic narrative 8. Vulnerable lives: the affective dimensions of risk in young adult cli-fi 9. Jihadi fiction: radicalisation narratives in the contemporary novel