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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Rudolf Freiburg (editor), Gerd Bayer (editor)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Leaves
356
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.


✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Survival: An Introductory Essay
Survival as an Omnipresent Issue in Life and Literature
The Definition of ‘Survival’
The Survival of Individuals
The Survival of Groups
The Individual and the ‘Group’: The Ethics of Survival
The Dialectics of Survival
The Reception of Survival Stories
Survival After the End of the Anthropocene
Chapter Summaries
References
Part I: Survival and the Group
Chapter 2: The Visibility of Survival: Even the Dogs and Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Attention
Survival and the Figure of Elegy
Experiencing Survival
Attention to Invisibilities
Works Cited
Chapter 3: “Survivors all”: Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips
Transhistorical Novels
Narrative as “A Kind of Survival”
Connecting Tales of Survival
Solidarity Through Vulnerability
References
Chapter 4: Feats of Survival: Refugee Writing and the Ethics of Representation
The Poetics of Testimony: Abu Bakr Khaal, African Titanics
Politics and Representation: Refugee Tales I, II and III
Beyond Pity: Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Conclusion: The Impact of Non-citizen Refugee Narratives
References
Chapter 5: Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-slave Narrative: Sara Collins’s Neo-gothic The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The Black British Neo-slave Narrative and Postcolonial Trauma
“A patchwork monster”: Intertextuality and Unreliability
“A wave of memory breaks”: Trauma and the Fragmentation of Memory
Re-vision as Survival? Frannie’s Black Female Voice Versus White Male Abolitionism
Conclusion: “These pages are for you”
References
Part II: Survival and the Individual
Chapter 6: “That was what all men became: techniques for survival”: The Paradoxical Notion of Survival in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time
Introduction: Epiphany and Survival in Barnes’s Novels
The Noise of Time: An Allegory of Tragic Survival
Physical Survival in The Noise of Time
Psychological Survival in The Noise of Time
The Survival of Music
Conclusion: Survival—Worse than Death
References
Onlinequellen (YouTube, etc.)
Chapter 7: Vulnerability, Empathy, and the Ethics of Survival in Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here
The Function of Narrative Technique in the Representation of Trauma
Loss, Melancholia, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Survival
References
Chapter 8: Stories of Dis-ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives
Mediated Dis-ease
Survival and Dementia
The Poetics of Dis-ease
Literary Dis-ease in the Attention Economy
References
Chapter 9: Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude
Jenny Diski, a Dying Survivor
Literature, Legacy, Nachleben
Beyond Closure
References
Chapter 10: Environmental Ethics of Survival: Case Study Analysis of I am Legend and The Revenant
Environmental Ethics and Film: A Literature Review
Framing Survivalist Narratives from an Ecological and Ethical Perspective
Environmental Zombie Myths: Beyond Survivalism
I am Legend: Surviving a Pandemic!
The Revenant: A Love Letter to Nature and Survival
Concluding Remarks: Promoting a ‘Tipping Point’ in Ecological Engagement
References
Part III: Survival and the Holocaust
Chapter 11: Close Reading of a Title: On Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz
Pronouns
The Drowned and the Saved
Survival After Auschwitz
References
Chapter 12: Narrative Closure and the “Whew” Effect: The Ethics of Reading Narratives of Survival of the Holocaust
Survivor Memoir and the “Whew” Effect
American Holocaust Pedagogy and Narrative Closure
The Narrative Logic of Closure in the Survivor Memoir
Paratexts, Masterplots and Reader Desire
Countering the Masterplot of the “Escape Story”: Ruth Klüger’s Memoir
References
Chapter 13: With All the Force of Literalness: Ruth Klüger’s Survivor Testimonies in Erwin Leiser’s We Were Ten Brothers and Thomas Mitscherlich’s Journeys into Life
A Stamp of Reality: We Were Ten Brothers
The Water That Swallows You Down: Journeys into Life
Conclusion: The Figurative and the Literal
References
Chapter 14: “The Four Brothers”: Claude Lanzmann’s War Refugee Board Interviews
Peter Bergson: The “Nuisance Diplomat”2
John Pehle: “A Good Guy, but a Bureaucrat”10
Roswell McClelland: The View from Europe
Robert Reams: “Fac[ing] Up to the Realities Demanded by the Over-All War Effort”15
Conclusion
References
Index

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