Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. 1 Introduction: Conceptualisations of Failure and the Quest Narrative 1
5. 2 American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: The End of the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 34
6. 3 Failing to Listen, Failing to Speak: Narrating Women’s Experience in Julia Kristeva’s Possessions 62
7. 4 Human Rights and Eurocentric Universalism: Questioning Truth and Justice in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 90
8. 5 Dystopia, Erasure, and Waiting: Navigating Post-Revolutionary Egypt in Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue 119
9. 6 Conclusion: Reconceptualising Failure 147
10. Works Cited 151
11. Index 164