Narratives of fear and safety / / edited by Kaisa Kaukiainen, Kaisa Kurikka, Hanna Mäkelä, Elise Nykänen, Sanna Nyqvist, Juha Raipola, Anne Riippa, and Hanna Samola.
"The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety thr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tampere, Finland : : Tampere University Press,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English French |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (542 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Cultural politics of fear and safety
- L’oeuvre, la peur et le temps : Pour une saisie du risque par la littérature / Anne Duprat
- Knocking on Europe’s door: How narratives of fear, insecurity and nostalgia shape collective perceptions of immigration / Anna Notaro
- Pro loco et tempore : La littérature portugaise a l’épicentre de la crise économique / Serafina Martins
- II. Fear and safety across genres
- “We have to fix this world now”: Hope, utopianism, and new modes of political agency in two contemporary Finnish young adult dystopias / Maria Laakso
- La sécurité ou l’exacerbation des peurs au profit d’une liberté provisoire / Orlane Glises De La Riviere
- Mind the gap: Fear on the London Underground / Cristiana Pugliese
- Peur du chaos et retour a l’humain : Le mythe du yéti selon Hergé et Castelli-Manara / Brigitte Le Juez
- III. Cultural and transcultural perspectives on fear and safety
- Fear of unjust memory or desire for secure identity? Remembering the era of 1989 transition in contemporary Polish novel / Olga Szmidt
- Fear of the Other: Representations of Otherness in Irish and Ukrainian famine fictions / Tatiana Krol
- The fear of cultural belonging: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s transnational writing / Nora Moll
- Fear and safety in contemporary Russian cinema: A transcultural perspective / Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak
- Divakaruni’s Before We Visit the Goddess: Overcoming fears and instabilities / Metka Zupančič
- IV. Coping with fear
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as posthumanity in graphic narratives / Lisa DeTora
- Of murdered babies and silenced histories: Gendering memory in two francophone trauma narratives / Nathalie Ségeral
- Peur et humour : Le cas de l’humour noir / Jean-Marc Moura
- L’Autre dans la fiction post-apocalyptique du XXI siecle / Jasmin Hammon
- V. The End of the world? From cultural ecologies to ecological disasters
- Michel Deguy’s l’etre-comme and the poetics of ecological comparativism / Sam La Védrine
- Sans dessus dessous (1889) de Jules Verne : Dernier avertissement avant l’Apocalypse / Laure Léveque
- Le Japon de Fukushima comme lieu de discours pour des auteurs francophones / Sabine Kraenker
- L’invention de la catastrophe au XVIII siecle : Une invention renouvelée a la croisée de la littérature, de l’histoire des sociétés et de l’histoire environnementale / Sandra Contamina