The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture

1. Survival: An Introductory Essay.- Part I. Survival and the Group.- 2. The Visibility of Survival: Even the Dogs and Jon McGregor’s Ethics of Attention.- 3. “Survivors all”: Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips.- 4. Feats of Survival: Refugee Writing and the Ethics of Representation.- 5. Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-slave Narrative: Sara Collins’s Neo-gothic The Confessions of Frannie Langton.-&nbsp;Part II. Survival and the Individual.- 6. “That was what all men became: techniques for survival”: The Paradoxical Notion of Survival in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time.-&nbsp;7. Vulnerability, Empathy, and the Ethics of Survival in Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here.-&nbsp;8. Stories of Dis-ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives.- 9. Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude.- 10. Environmental Ethics of Survival: Case Study Analysis of I am Legend and The Revenant.- Part III Survival and the Holocaust.- 11. Close Reading of a Title: On Survival in Auschwitz.-&nbsp;12. Narrative Closure and the “Whew” Effect: The Ethics of Reading Narratives of Survival of the Holocaust.- 13. With All the Force of Literalness: Ruth Klüger’s Survivor Testimonies in Erwin Leiser’s We Were Ten Brothers and Thomas Mitscherlich’s Journeys into Life.-&nbsp;14. “The Four Brothers”: Claude Lanzmann’s War Refugee Board Interviews.<p></p>