{"title":"Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li","authors":"Irving Goh","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a905749","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay addresses an aspect of failure that I call \"shared unshareability,\" which brings us to a reckoning that—despite failure being an experience that can be commonly shared—there is always something of failure that never leaves the personal. Articulating failure's shared unshareability can thus help us understand why some of us cannot dissociate ourselves from our sense of failure. I elucidate failure's shared unshareability through a selection of Yiyun Li's texts that deal with the failure to want to live, and further show how melodrama and writing are implicated.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"539 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a905749","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay addresses an aspect of failure that I call "shared unshareability," which brings us to a reckoning that—despite failure being an experience that can be commonly shared—there is always something of failure that never leaves the personal. Articulating failure's shared unshareability can thus help us understand why some of us cannot dissociate ourselves from our sense of failure. I elucidate failure's shared unshareability through a selection of Yiyun Li's texts that deal with the failure to want to live, and further show how melodrama and writing are implicated.
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Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
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