Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture - 9781350235311

Introduction -- Part one. Feeling. Chapter 1. Anxious reading: the precarity novel and the affective class / Liam Connell, University of Brighton, UK ; Chapter 2. Anxiety in the precariat: the affects of class in James Kelman's fiction / Mathies G. Aarhus, University of Southern Denmark ; Chapter 3. Performing precarity: threatening the audience in Gary Owen's Iphigenia in Splott / Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark -- Part two. Bodies. Chapter 4. Imagined sovereignty: mapping and resisting precarity in Indira Allegra's Woven Account / Marianne Kongerslev, Aalborg University, Denmark ; Chapter 5. Precarious bodies on the move, precarious bodies under attack / Katharina Pewny, previously Ghent University, Belgium and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze, doctoral researcher ; Chapter 6. Death knells and dead ends: latent futurity in Masande Ntshanga's The reactive and Mohale Mashigo's 'Ghost strain N' / Sophy Kohler, University of Southern Denmark -- Part three. Time. Chapter 7. Periodization and precarious labour: the work of genre in La La Land and Sorry to bother you' / Alissa G. Karl, State University of New York, Brockport, USA ; Chapter 8. Substanceless subjectivity: from proletarianization to precarization in British experimental fiction / Benjamin Kohlmann, University of Regensburg, Germany ; Chapter 9. The future is a ghost': Precarity, anticipation and retrospection in Anneliese Mackintosh's 'Limited dreamers' and Lee Rourke's Vulgar things / Emily J. Hogg, University of Southern Denmark ; Chapter 10. 'Make it now': poetry, precarity, and security in Jorie Graham and Ghayath Almadhoun / Walt Hunter, Clemson University, USA ; Chapter 11. Finding time in common: speculative fiction and the precariat in Robinson's New York 2140 / Bryan Yazell, University of Southern Denmark.

• | Author: Emily J. Hogg, Peter Simonsen
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1350235318
• | ISBN-13: 9781350235311