ABSTRACT
The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Vulnerability and Self-Quest
chapter 1|25 pages
Learning to Love
The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
chapter 3|15 pages
Espousing the Wound
Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin
part II|56 pages
Vulnerability and Self-Definition
chapter 4|19 pages
“Am I Still Alice?”
The Quest for “a Sense of Self” and Alzheimer’s Disease in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
part III|70 pages
Masochism and Loss of Affect
part IV|62 pages
Vulnerability and Biopolitics
chapter 10|22 pages
Caring, Dwelling, Being
The Phenomenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
chapter 11|22 pages
Wounded Subjects and Vulnerable Nature
Moving from Loss to Environmental Care in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
chapter 12|18 pages
Barely Alive
Rewriting Sacrificial Passion in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
