101603 20230622083310.0 doi 10.1017/S1062798720000666 sideral 118234 ART-2020-118234 eng Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8928-7295 Introduction. Contemporary Literature in Times of Crisis and Vulnerability: Trauma, Demise of Sovereignty and Interconnectedness 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been dominated by multifarious crises that have given way to individual and collective wounds resulting from environmental disasters, exile and migratory movements, war, terrorism, radicalism and other disturbing historical episodes. Our main contention is that trauma and/or excessive exposure to vulnerable situations can be relieved thanks to diverse narrative practices. Accordingly, we explore the field of Trauma Studies since its emergence to its current evolution towards the vulnerability paradigm, examining the different meanings of vulnerability not only from the perspective of the life sciences but also from the social sciences and its application to the humanities. Then, we move on to the notion of resilience and how it can help us articulate and/or move beyond trauma and vulnerability. In keeping with this, considering the ethical and political relationality between the self and other, we highlight one's tendency to be affected by the other''s wounds and vulnerability as well as the inevitability of interdependency and interconnectedness between people and non-human entities. Thus, we explore the role of literature in giving voice to the voiceless and to unheard experiences of suffering as well as in representing the demise of the sovereign self and the rise of human and non-human interconnectedness after being exposed to traumatic or disastrous events, as represented in contemporary literatures in English. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2019-HUM-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.487 2020 AREA STUDIES 69 / 80 = 0.863 2020 Q4 T3 0.219 2020 Political Science and International Relations 2020 Q3 Geography, Planning and Development 2020 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Sarikaya-Sen, Merve 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 29, 3 (2020), 315 - 332 Eur. rev. European Review 1062-7987 184527 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/101603/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1449406 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/101603/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:101603 articulos driver 2023-06-21-14:59:36 ARTICLE