This volume is the continuation of the book Suicide in Modern Literature, edited by Josefa Ros Velasco. Considering the positive reception of this book, Ros Velasco launches the second part, entitled The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide. This time, leading representatives of various disciplines analyze the literary, philosophical, and biographical works of contemporary writers worldwide who attempted to commit suicide or achieved their goal, looking for covert and overt clues about their intentions in their writings. This book aims to continue shedding light on the social and structural causes that lead to suicide and on the suicidal mind, but also to show that people assiduous to writing usually reflect their intentions to commit suicide in their writings, to explain how these frequently veiled intentions can be revealed and interpreted, and to highlight the potential of artistic, philosophical, and autobiographical writing as a tool to detect suicidal ideation and prevent its consummation in vulnerable people. This book analyzes several case studies and their allusions to their contexts and the socio-structural and environmental violence and pressures they suffered, expressions of their will and agency, feelings of dislocation between the individual, reality, and existential alienation, and literary styles, writing techniques, and metaphorical language.
Part I. Suicide in contemporary writers caused by socio-structural and
environmental violence and pressures.-
1. Beyond the Wertherian motif of
suicide: The unity of the self in Karoline von Günderrodes death.-
2. I
manage it: Analyzing tropes of suicide in Sylvia Plaths writing.-
3.
Virginia Woolfs suicidal character(s): Schizophrenia and the rebellion
against the body and the self in her literary works.-
4. Death beats in my
heart everyday: A sociological reading of suicidal intent in Sara Shaguftas
works.-
5. Inside the medical suicidal mind: Felipe Trigos death by suicide
and its self-novelization as a way of understanding suicide in contemporary
practitioners.-
6. The problem of suicide in Kafka. An ethical or aesthetical
problem?.-
7. The tragedy of Vladimir Mayakovsky: Suicide as a dialectical
dilemma.-
8. Paul Celan. The abyss of the word forgiveness.-
9. Lines of
flight: The deterritorialization of Gilles Deleuze.- . Part II. Suicide in
contemporary writers asan expression of the will, the dislocation between the
individual and the reality, and existential alienation.-
10. The ontological
suicide of Philipp Mainländer: A search for redemption through nothingness.-
11. Simone Weil, martyr or suicide? Between martyrdom and suicide: The
question of the meaning of life and death.-
12. The fall of a legend:
Deleuzes suicide and his Spinoza.-
13. Is suicide a choice? Suicide and
Sophies choice in William Styron.-
14. Mortality and meaninglessness: Leo
Tolstoy and Mickey Sachs reconsidered.-
15. Carlo Michelstaedter and the
philosophical suicide.-
16. Two-Gun Bob on the pyre: Robert E. Howards
suicide in the context of his life and work.-
17. The confusing anxiety of
Rynosuke Akutagawa.-
18. Through the mask. Behind the Osamu Dazais smile.-
19. The catastrophe of the self: The case of Unica Zürn.- . Part III. Suicide
in contemporary writers understood through their literary styles, their
writing techniques, and their metaphorical language.-20. Sylvia Plath:
Suicidal tendencies in life, poems, and fiction.-
21. Dying is an art:
Death in the art of Sylvia Plath.-
22. One wrist, then the other wrist: The
mind style of a suicidal protagonist as portrayed in Sylvia Plaths The bell
jar.-
23. Reflection of suicidal tendencies in poetry: A computational
analysis of gender-themed versus general-themed poetry by Cesare Pavese, Anne
Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.-
24. Black and blue: Revealing suicidality in the
poetry of the Afro-German writer-activist, May Ayim.-
25. Words in poetry:
Early and late poems by Haizi.-
26. Being suicidal after birth: Recoveries of
Brooke Shields in Down came the rain, Elif afak in Siyah Süt (Black milk),
and Fuani Marino in Svegliami a Mezzanotte (Wake me up in the midnight) from
ecolinguistic perspectives.
Josefa Ros Velasco is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Prior to this, she was a Teaching Assistant and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University (20172021). She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2017, Complutense University of Madrid) and is specialized in Boredom Studies. She is the president of the International Society of Boredom Studies and the author of the book La enfermedad del aburrimiento [ The Disease of Boredom] (Alianza Editorial, 2022) and editor of the books Boredom is In Your Mind (Springer, 2019); The Culture of Boredom (Brill, 2020); The Faces of Depression in Literature (Peter Lang, 2020), and Suicide in Modern Literature (Springer Nature, 2021). Recently, she won the National Research Prize of Spain.
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