The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative

Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega

Part I

Frames and Readers

1. "The thing was to make yourself invisible, she said": Jon McGregor's Reframing of the Norms of Perception of Working-Class Women in So Many Ways to Begin.

Susana Onega

2. Attention to What? The Poetics, Ethics and Attentional Economies in Dave Eggers's The Parade.

Miriam Fernandez-Santiago

3. Interstitial Ethics: Attending to Frames of Intelligibility in Harry Parker's Anatomy of a Soldier.

Katia Marcellin

Part II

Historical Invisibilities

4. Attending to the Victims of (In-)Visible Violence: Elided Potentialities Revisited in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These.

Merve Sar?kaya-?en

5. From Shrouded Presence to Impactful Mentorship: Drawing Attention to the Romani Housewife in Mikey Walsh's Gypsy Boy.

Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz

6. "Creating a Scene: Minor Literature and the Ecologies of Critical Attention.

Ivan Callus

Part III

The Forces of Inattention

7. Surveillance and (In-)Visibility: Reading Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon through an Ethics of Attention.

Angela Rivera-Izquierdo

8. "I can't be silent or invisible any longer": Reorienting Attention and Care in Jan Carson's The Last Resort.

Paula Romo-Mayor

9. The Ethics of Carelessness: Inattention in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Alice Bennett

Part IV

The Natural World

10. The Ecology of Attention in Inga Simpson's Where the Trees Were.

Barbara Arizti

11. Vibrant Matter, Polyphony and the Ecology of Attention in Sarah Moss's Summerwater.

Angelo Monaco

12. The Sharpness of the Post-Pastoral: Melissa Harrison's At Hawthorn Time.

Jean-Michel Ganteau

Index