Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre Masschelein Anneleen
Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre Masschelein Anneleen Mediating Vulnerability meditates on the creative and destructive powers of vulnerability in literary…
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Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre Masschelein Anneleen
Mediating Vulnerability meditates on the creative and destructive powers of vulnerability in literary form.To experience vulnerability is to experience the tension between ruin and creativity: a vulnerable species faces extinction but also evolution, and a vulnerable person risks both irreparable harm and transformative connection. Examining a variety of approaches to the destructive and remediating powers of genre, the authors consider how vulnerability intersects a range of representational forms including high-profile fiction by Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy as well as lesser-known graphic novels, video games, television, and photography. Mediating Vulnerability explores how this tension plays out across contemporary literary studies.