Información General

• Autores: Silvia Pellicer‑Ortín (coord.), Julia Kuznetski (coord.), Chiara Battisti (coord.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
• Año de publicación: 2025
• Colecciones: Routledge literature companions
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781032424644, 9781032424651
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Resumen

• The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. The third decade of the twenty-first century is being marked by a polycrisis caused by various world crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change leading to economic, geopolitical, environmental, health and security crises.

  Featuring 42 chapters, the collection examines crises through literary texts in relation to the environment, finance, migration and diaspora, war, human rights, values and identity, health, politics, terrorism and technology. It illuminates the many faces of the current permacrisis as well as the multifarious crises of the past and their representation in literatures across ages and cultures—from the Viking wars, Black Death in mediaeval Europe, technology in ancient China and the crisis of power in Elizabethan England to imperial biopower in nineteenth-century India, the genocides in the twentieth century, upsurge of domestic violence during the Covid lockdown in Spain and the development of AI.

  The Companion connects diverse cultures, disciplines and academic traditions to show how and why literature, media and art can voice all types of crises across times. It will be a key resource for students and researchers in a broad range of areas including literature, film studies, narrative studies, cultural studies, international politics and ecocriticism.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Literature and crises across historical scales

    Julia Kuznetski, Chiara Battisti, Silvia Pellicer‑Ortín

    págs. 1-11

    

  • PART I Addressing crises through literature I.I Theoretical approaches to crises

    • What matters: Literature’s importance in times of crisis

      Jean‑Michel Ganteau

      págs. 17-25

      

    • The ethics and value of literature in times of crisis

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 26-35

      

    • Whose crisis? Framing 9/11 and the “war on terror”

      Michael C. Frank

      págs. 35-44

      

    • Migration crisis in contemporary literature: A complicated journey through loss and hope

      Merve Sarıkaya‑Şen

      págs. 45-53

      

    • War, migration and human rights: Strategies of voicingin contemporary fiction

      Sue Vice

      págs. 53-61

      

    • Care crisis

      Lisa Baraitser, Laura Salisbury

      págs. 62-71

      

    • Climate crisis and literature: Towards propositive narratives

      Gala Arias Rubio

      págs. 72-80

      

  • PART I Addressing crises through literature I.II Literary genres and crises

    • Physical and spiritual crises in mediaeval and early English Renaissance drama

      Paul Majkut

      págs. 83-94

      

    • Lines of exposure: Poetry and crisis

      Charles I. Armstrong

      págs. 95-103

      

    • Life‑writing practices: A way out of crisis?

      Silvia Pellicer‑Ortín

      págs. 104-115

      

    • Too burning for fiction? Women writing nonfiction in times of crisis

      Julia Kuznetski

      págs. 116-125

      

    • The resilient frame: Graphic narratives and crises representation

      Chiara Battisti

      págs. 126-136

      

    • Ecosystems of change in the Baltics: Decoloniality and storytelling in art

      Ieva Astahovska

      págs. 137-148

      

    • “When it changed”: Crisis in science fiction and speculative literature

      Raphael Kabo

      págs. 149-157

      

  • PART II Crises in literatures across the world II.I Political and ideological crises in a historical perspective

    • Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: Literature as the art of mediation

      Fabio Forner

      págs. 163-172

      

    • “Fair sequence and succession”: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan succession crisis

      Harvey Wiltshire

      págs. 173-182

      

    • The Devil in disguise: Writing the witch in Jacobean law and literature

      Ian Ward

      págs. 183-192

      

    • Annus mirabilis and the rhyming of history

      Paul Majkut

      págs. 193-202

      

    • This is not a crisis. The rhetorical construction of an epistemicand ideological crisis (Sweden)

      Leif Dahlberg

      págs. 203-210

      

    • The crisis of polarisation: The example of Jonathan Coe

      Robert Eaglestone

      págs. 211-221

      

  • PART II Crises in literatures across the world II.II War, migration and violence

    • The inexhaustible human vectors: War, crisis, literature—from Beowulf to Ian McEwan

      Eva María Pérez Rodríguez

      págs. 225-233

      

    • Identity struggles and domestic turmoil in Ayşe kulin's Tutsak güneş 1 , 2

      Emrah Atasoy

      págs. 234-242

      

    • The crisis of humanism, the Holocaust and “The Jewish Dog” as ade/re‑humanising figure in French literature

      Helena Duffy

      págs. 244-255

      

    • Hermeneutical (in) justice and crisis: A case study of Belfastand the “Troubles”

      Cecilia Beecher Martins

      págs. 256-266

      

    • Poetry as an anthropological trailblazer in situations of crisis: Russophone poets’ answers to Russia’s aggression against Ukraineand catastrophic transformation of the political regime (2022–2024)

      Ilya Kukulin

      págs. 267-283

      

    • The year war did not begin: Representations of war in Estonian literature

      Piret Viires

      págs. 284-291

      

  • PART II Crises in literatures across the world II.III Values and identity crises

    • One man’s dystopia is another woman’s Utopia: Humanity revolutionised, according to Stanisława Przybyszewska

      Ksenia Shmydkaya

      págs. 295-304

      

    • Experiences, learning and consequences of the pandemic: A critical eye at Spanish literature through the text of Marta Sanz

      Noelia Núñez Preza

      págs. 305-313

      

    • Ukrainian literary imaginaries of the past after 1991: From substitutionto restoration?

      Alexander Dmitriev

      págs. 314-325

      

    • Liminal states of consciousness and crises of affect in contemporary Chinese literature

      Ivan Stacy

      págs. 326-334

      

    • Transitory identities and heterotopic spaces of crisis in the narratives of contemporary Brazilian women writers

      Izabel F.O. Brandão

      págs. 335-343

      

    • Crises down under: An approach to values and identityin contemporary Australian writing

      Bárbara Arizti Martín

      págs. 344-353

      

    • Epic voices from Africa: Historical decolonial re‑writings

      Eugenia Ossana

      págs. 354-363

      

  • PART II Crises in literatures across the world II.IV Environmental crises and biopolitics

    • “Art in crisis”: The novel in the age of digital media and global change

      Markku Lehtimäki

      págs. 367-375

      

    • Biopolitics and crisis in South Asian literary representations of midwifery and surrogacy

      Antonia Navarro Tejero

      págs. 376-385

      

    • Transecology repairs the capitalist metabolic rift? A reading of Chôsansei [Birth conscription] by Japanese novelist Tanaka Chôko

      MORITA Keitaro

      págs. 386-395

      

  • PART II Crises in literatures across the world II.V Technological crises and posthumanism

    • Technological crisis and posthumanity in Chinese philosophy and literature

      Amy Kit-sze Chan

      págs. 399-408

      

    • Crisis, in extremis: Posthuman vulnerability in Jean‑Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville’s The last man

      Ivan Callus

      págs. 409-418

      

    • “If you are a man Winston, you are the last man": Social crisis and the wounded storyteller in the dystopian universe of George Orwell’s Nineteen eighty‑four

      Sidia Fiorato

      págs. 419-427

      

    • Transhumanism and posthumanism: The enhancementor the end of the human?

      Daniela Carpi

      págs. 427-436

      

    • Literature at the crossroads in digital age: A case study at IULM University

      Paola Carbone

      págs. 437-447

      

    • The Pause letter, the existential AI crisis and digital ideology

      Anders Hedman

      págs. 448-460