Literary representations of precarious work, 1840 to the present / edited by Michiel Rys, Bart Philipsen.
Rys, Michiel, editor.; Philipsen, Bart, editor.
2021
PN761 .L58 2021
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Title Literary representations of precarious work, 1840 to the present / edited by Michiel Rys, Bart Philipsen.
ISBN 9783030881740 (electronic bk.)
3030881741 (electronic bk.)
9783030881733
3030881733
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88174-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-88174-0 doi
Call Number PN761 .L58 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.034
Summary Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present. With contributions by experts in American, British, French, German and Swedish culture, this book examines how literature has shaped the understanding of socio-economic precarity, a concept that is mostly used to describe living and working conditions in our contemporary neoliberal and platform economy. This volume shows that authors tried to develop new poetic tools and literary techniques to translate the experience of social regression and insecurity to readers. While some authors critically engage with normative models of work by zooming in on the physical and affective backlash of being a precarious worker, others even find inspiration in their own situations as writers trying to survive. Furthermore, this volume shows that precarity is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon and that literature has always been a central medium to (critically) register forms of social insecurity. By retrieving parts of that archive, this volume paves the way to a historically nuanced view on contemporary regimes of precarious work.
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Added Author Rys, Michiel, editor.
Philipsen, Bart, editor.
Series Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.
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Chapter 1: Introduction. Poetics and Precarity. Literary Representations of Precarious Work, Past and Present
Chapter 2: Precarity and Privilege in State-of-the-Nation Novels. Anatomy of a Fragmented Body Politic
Chapter 3: Precarity and Privilege in State-of-the-Nation Novels. Anatomy of a Fragmented Body Politic
Chapter 4: . Slums, the Lumpenproletariat, and Precarity. Literary Representations of the Urban Precarious in Egon Erwin Kisch and Ilija Trojanows Reportages
Chapter 5: The Impossibility of Protest. Precarity in Maria Leitners Reportage Novel Hotel Amerika
Chapter 6: Precarity, Working-Class Literature, and the Written Presence of Objects. A Material Reading of Lucien Bourgeois LAscension
Chapter 7: At Home on the Stage. Towards an Affective Geography of Gentrification and Eviction in U.S. Cities
Chapter 8: Common Language: Academics Against Networking and the Poetics of Precarity
Chapter 9: Writing the Voices of Precarity in Contemporary French Literature
Chapter 10: Working Oneself to Death. Interview with Heike Geiler about Seasonal Associate (2014)
Chapter 11: The Side-by-Side Existence of Total Catastrophe and Everyday Life Is the Real. Interview with Kathrin Roggla about Precarity and the Grammar of Catastrophes
Chapter 12: Precarious Authorship in the Digital Society: Literary Value Chains and Kathrin Rogglas Essenpoetik
Chapter 13: Towards a Poetics of Precarity: Labor Spheres in Contemporary European Fiction
Chapter 14: The Character of Risk
Chapter 15: To Be or Not to Be a Laborer: Three Swedish Novels about Young Adults, Temporary Employment and the Precariats Consciousness
Chapter 16: Neighboring with the Roofless. Imagin(in)g Homeless Others
Chapter 17: In Real Time: Phenomenologies of Precarity in Ali Smiths Seasonal Quartet
Chapter 18: Coda. Narrating Precarity in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic. .

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