What is it about?
How do contemporary writers explore the writing of life? This paper explores contemporary autobiographical fiction, especially the work of Chris Kraus, as fiction which questions the form and value attached to life.
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Why is it important?
This work demonstrates the tensions and conflicts around life in the contemporary moment, and especially how fiction can engage with questions of state and capitalist power that place a value on life
Perspectives
This work is part on an ongoing project looking at the value of life in contemporary theory and literature. The aim is especially to think about works that might interrogate our unexamined assumptions about life.
Professor Benjamin Noys
University of Chichester
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This page is a summary of: Vital Texts and Bare Life: The Uses and Abuses of Life in Contemporary Fiction, CounterText, August 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/count.2015.0016.
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