Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction

<p><em>The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction</em> 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.</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction</p><p></p><p>Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega</p><p>Part I</p><p></p><p>Vulnerability and Self-Quest </p><p></p><p>1 Learning to Love: The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Winterson’s <i>The Gap of Time</i></p><p></p><p>Susana Onega</p><p>2 The Eclipse of Heroism and the Outing of Plural Masculinities in Alan Hollinghurst’s <i>The Stranger’s Child </i></p><p></p><p>Georges Letissier</p><p>3 Espousing the Wound: Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregor’s <i>So Many Ways to Begin</i></p><p></p><p>Jean-Michel Ganteau</p><p>Part II</p><p></p><p>Vulnerability and Self-Definition</p><p></p><p>4 "Am I Still Alice?": The Quest for "a Sense of Self" and Alzheimer’s Disease in Lisa Genova’s<i> Still Alice</i></p><p></p><p>Chiara Battisti</p><p>5 Anita Brookner’s Wounded Heroine</p><p></p><p>Eileen Williams-Wanquet</p><p>6 Wounded Characters and Vulnerable Lives and Places in Ian McEwan’s <i>Saturday</i></p><p></p><p>Rosario Arias</p><p>Part III</p><p></p><p>Masochism and Loss of Affect</p><p></p><p>7 Willed Wounds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masochism in A. L. Kennedy’s Fiction</p><p></p><p>Maria Grazia Nicolosi</p><p>8 The Masochistic Self Quest of the Harassed Hero in Hanya Yanagihara’s <i>A Little Life</i></p><p></p><p>Merve Sarıkaya-Şen</p><p>9 Reading through the Body: The Damaged Mind in Tom McCarthy’s <i>Remainder</i></p><p></p><p>Renate Brosch</p><p>Part IV</p><p></p><p>Vulnerability and Biopolitics</p><p></p><p>10 "Caring, Dwelling, Being: The Phenomenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro’s <i>Never Let Me Go</i>"</p><p></p><p>Laura Colombino</p><p>11 Wounded Subjects and Vulnerable Nature in Jhumpa Lahiri’s <i>The Lowland</i></p><p></p><p>Angelo Monaco</p><p>12 Barely Alive: Rewriting Sacrificial Passion in Coetzee’s <i>Life and Times of Michael K</i></p><p></p><p>Pascale Tollance</p><p></p><p>Notes on Contributors</p><p></p><p>Index</p>