RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Reorienting Vulnerability: An Analysis of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk
A1 Flores-Quesada, María Magdalena
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This article seeks to challenge the traditionally negative connotations of the notion of vulnerability. I propose to approach the concept in dialogue with Giorgio Agamben’s idea of potentiality to demonstrate that both potential and vulnerability can be regarded as transforming and empowering characteristics for the subject. I analyse the protagonist of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk (2016) under this light to show how a subject can use vulnerability as the fulcrum of freedom and agency, particularly in the context of a problematic mother-daughter relationship. I suggest that understanding vulnerability as potentiality allows a reorientation of our conception of the victim or the vulnerable as subjects in potential power.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50801
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50801
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 42 (2021) pags. 105-125
DS UVaDOC
RD 14-mar-2025