From Trans-Species Vulnerability to Social-Ecological Resilience: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2018).
Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2018) presents contemporary London both as a site of transspecies vulnerability and as a social-ecological system defined by its capacity for resilience, adaptability and transformability. Drawing on Judith Butler’s reconceptualization of vulnerability as resistance (2016...
| Publicado en: | Atlantis (0210-6124) Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 131 - 150 |
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Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos
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