Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is Associate Professor at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has co-edited several books, including Trauma Narratives and Herstory (with Sonya Andermahr; 2013) and Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature (with María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro; 2017).Julia Kuznetski is Professor of English at the School of Humanities of Tallinn University, Estonia. Her work includes Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (co-edited with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; Routledge, 2019).Chiara Battisti is an Associate Professor of Anglo‑American Languages and Literatures at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona, Italy. Her publications include Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature (2023) and Islands in Geography, Law, and Literature (co-edited with S. Fiorato, M. Nicolini, T. Perrin; 2022).

• List of Contributors Introduction: Literature and crises across historical scales Julia Kuznetski, Chiara Battisti and Silvia Pellicer‑OrtinPART I – ADDRESSING CRISES THROUGH LITERATUREI.I Theoretical approaches to crises1. What matters: Literature’s importance in times of crisisJean‑Michel Ganteau2. The ethics and value of literature in times of crisisSusana Onega3. Whose crisis? Framing 9/11 and the “war on terror”Michael C. Frank4. Migration crisis in contemporary literature: A complicated journey through loss and hopeMerve Sarıkaya‑Şen5. War, migration and human rights: Strategies of voicing in contemporary fictionSue Vice6. Care crisisLisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury7. Climate crisis and literature: Towards propositive narrativesGala Arias RubioI.II Literary genres and crises 8. Physical and spiritual crises in mediaeval and early English Renaissance dramaPaul Majkut9. Lines of exposure: Poetry and crisisCharles I. Armstrong10. Life-writing practices: A way out of crisis?Silvia Pellicer‑Ortín11. Too burning for fiction? Women writing nonfiction in times of crisisJulia Kuznetski12. The resilient frame: Graphic narratives and crises representationChiara Battisti13. Ecosystems of change in the Baltics: Decoloniality and storytelling in artIeva Astahovska14. "When it changed": Crisis in science fiction and speculative literatureRaphael KaboPART II - CRISES IN LITERATURES ACROSS THE WORLDII.I Political and ideological crises in a historical perspective15. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: literature as the art of mediationFabio Forner16. “Fair sequence and succession”: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan succession crisisHarvey Wiltshire17. The Devil in disguise: Writing the witch in Jacobean law and literatureIan Ward18. Annus mirabilis and the rhyming of historyPaul Majkut19. This is not a crisis. The rhetorical construction of an epistemic and ideological crisis (Sweden)Leif Dahlberg20. The crisis of polarisation: The example of Jonathan CoeRobert EaglestoneII.II War, migration and violence21. The inexhaustible human vectors: War, crisis, literature—from Beowulf to Ian McEwanEva M. Pérez‑Rodríguez22. Identity struggles and domestic turmoil in Ayşe Kulin’s Tutsak güneşEmrah Atasoy23. The crisis of humanism, the Holocaust, and “The Jewish Dog” as a de/re-humanising figure in French literatureHelena Duffy24. Hermeneutical (in) justice and crisis: A case study of Belfast and the “Troubles” Cecilia Beecher Martins25. Poetry as an anthropological trailblazer in situations of crisis: Russophone poets’ answer Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and catastrophic transformation of the political regime (2022—2024)Ilya Kukulin26. The year war did not begin: Representations of war in Estonian literaturePiret ViiresII.III Values and identity crises27. One man’s dystopia is another woman’s Utopia: Humanity revolutionised, according to Stanisława PrzybyszewskaKsenia Shmydkaya28. Experiences, learning and consequences of the pandemic: A critical eye at Spanish literature through the text of Marta SanzNoelia Núñez Preza29. Ukrainian literary imaginaries of the past after 1991: From substitution to restoration?Alexander Dmitriev30. Liminal states of consciousness and crises of affect in contemporary Chinese literatureIvan Stacy31. Transitory identities and heterotopic spaces of crisis in the narratives of contemporary Brazilian women writersIzabel Brandão32. Crises down under: An approach to values and identity in contemporary Australian writingBárbara Arizti33. Epic voices from Africa: Historical decolonial re-writingsEugenia OssanaII.IV. Environmental crises and biopolitics34. “Art in crisis”: The novel in the age of digital media and global changeMarkku Lehtimäki35. Biopolitics and crisis in South Asian literary representations of midwifery and surrogacyAntonia Navarro‑Tejero36.Transecology repairs the capitalist metabolic rift? A reading of Chôsansei [Birth conscription] by Japanese novelist Tanaka ChôkoMORITA KeitaroII.V Technological crises and posthumanism37. Technological crisis and posthumanity in Chinese philosophy and literatureChan Kit‑sze Amy38. Crisis, in extremis: Posthuman vulnerability in Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin de Grainville’s The last manIvan Callus39. “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-fourSidia Fiorato40. Transhumanism and posthumanism: The enhancement or the end of the human?Daniela Carpi41. Literature at the crossroad in digital age: A case study at IULM UniversityPaola Carbone42. The Pause Letter, the existential AI crisis and digital ideologyAnders HedmanIndex