The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fictiontracks 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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega
Part I
Vulnerability and Self-Quest
1Learning to Love: The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Wintersons The Gap of Time
Susana Onega
2The Eclipse of Heroism and the Outing of Plural Masculinities in Alan Hollinghursts The Strangers Child
Georges Letissier
3Espousing the Wound: Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregors So Many Ways to Begin
Jean-Michel Ganteau
Part II
Vulnerability and Self-Definition
4 Am I Still Alice? : The Quest for a Sense of Self and Alzheimers Disease in Lisa GenovasStill Alice
Chiara Battisti
5Anita Brookners Wounded Heroine
Eileen Williams-Wanquet
6Wounded Characters and Vulnerable Lives and Places in Ian McEwans Saturday
Rosario Arias
Part III
Masochism and Loss of Affect
7Willed Wounds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masochism in A. L. Kennedys Fiction
Maria Grazia Nicolosi
8The Masochistic Self Quest of the Harassed Hero in Hanya Yanagiharas A Little Life
Merve Sar1kaya-^en
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