Embodied Vulnerabilities in Literature and Film by Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez
Embodied Vulnerabilities in Literature and Film

Embodied Vulnerabilities in Literature and Film


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Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film brings together essays from scholars from Japan, USA, The Netherlands, Canada, and Spain which look into the representation of vulnerability in human bodies and subjectivities featuring in a selected corpus of literary and filmic productions from late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Based on the etymological roots of the term--from Latin vulnus, vulneris, which means 'wound'--the volume title gestures towards the aporia inherent in the term VulnerAbility. Specialists explore the conflicting theoretical grounds that characterize the ontology of vulnerability; on the one hand, vulnerability is understood as a state of passivity, victimhood and helplessness; and, on the other, a posthumanist reconceptualization of matter as porose to the interconnectedness of all being has reshaped vulnerability as the means to enable more emotionally and ideologically empathic responses to vulnerability in others, together with a more agential and resilient resistance of the vulnerable body. Not only is the array of genres covered in this volume significant--from narrative, drama, poetry, (auto)documentary, or film--in fiction and non-fiction, but also the varied cultural and linguistic coordinates of the literary and filmic texts scrutinized--from South and Central America, USA, Canada, Spain, France to Japan. Readers who decide to open the cover of this volume will benefit from becoming familiar with a relatively old topic--that of vulnerability--from a new perspective, so that they can consider the great potential of this critical concept anew.
About the Author:

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. She has recently co-edited Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2023).

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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032268446
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1032268441
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 530 gr


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