Contemporary vulnerabilities

It is since the early 2000s that notions about how to define vulnerability have been multifariously elaborated and questioned: even more, vulnerability in the twenty-first century has risen to be a dominant concern in academic debate widening its scope and extending its influence in areas as diverse as sociology, economics, ethics, anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literary criticism and psychology; indeed, political studies, as well as legal, gender, trauma, queer and affect, plus a variety of many more subjects, have contributed to amplifying its range. Edited by Pier Paolo Piciucco, Contemporary Vulnerabilities, is a work researching on the notion of vulnerability in contemporary Anglophone literatures. It relies on the critical works by 6 scholars working in the US Universities, Nicholas Birns, Caren Irr, Aimee Pozorski, Heather Hicks, Arne De Boever and Erinn Cunniff Gilson – the book’s guest of honour – 5 in the UK, Dominic Head, Christine Berberich, Ruth Maxey, Diletta De Cristofaro and Michael Greaney, 3 in France, Vanessa Guignery, Jean-Michel Ganteau and Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, 2 in Canada, Josh Toth and Cristina Ionica, plus Rajendra Chetty working in South Africa, Maren Scheurer in Germany and Pier Paolo Piciucco in Italy.