Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France)Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, (Spain)

• CONTENTSAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau PART I: Loss of Affect and Victimization1 And Yet: Figuring Global Trauma in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time BeingCathérine Bernard2 "The Willful Child": Resignifying Vulnerability through Affective Attachments in Emma Donoghue’s RoomMaite Escudero3 The Construction of Vulnerability and Monstrosity in Slipstream:Tom McCarthy’s RemainderMerve Sarikaya-SenPART II: Gender, Class, Race and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability 4 Erasing Female Victimhood: The Debate over Trauma and Truth Ángeles de la Concha5 Vulnerable Ethics and Politics: Peter Ackroyd’s Rhetoric of Excess and Indirection in The Lambs of LondonSusana Onega6 Reviving Ghosts: The Reversibility of Victims and Vindicators in Sarah Waters’s The Little StrangerEileen Williams-Wanquet7 A Dialectic of Trauma and Shame: The Politics of Dispossession in Gail Jones’s Black MirrorMaría Pilar Royo-GrasaPART III: The Politics of Visibility8 The Humanism behind Jonathan Coe’s Narrative "patchwork[s] of … coincidences": Acting and Writing around VulnerabilityLaurent Mellet9 The (In)visibility of Systemic Victimization: A Reading of Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari ShopAngela Locatelli10 Shifting Visibilities: The Politics of Trauma and Vulnerability in Neil Bartlett’s Skin LaneJean-Michel GanteauPART IV: History and the Archive11 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Vulnerable Shapes of Lisa Appignanesi’s Holocaust NarrativesMaria Grazia Nicolosi12 The Archive of a Missed Future: Vulnerability and the Poetics of Helplessness in Jayne Anne Philips’s Quiet Dell Marc Amfreville13 Sympathetic Haunting: An Interview with Jayne Anne Philips Conducted by Marc AmfrevilleIndex