Part I.Common(ing) problems

Chapter 1.Risk and responsibility in Kamila Shamsie’s
Burnt Shadows

John Clement Ball

Chapter 2.An escape artist: Fleeing the commons in Nadav Lapid’s films

Lincoln Z. Shlensky

Part II.Ruptured spaces

Chapter 3.A work, or a walk, in progress: Associative practice in Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Kristine Kelly

Chapter 4.Drawing life in limbo: Refugee lifeworlds in Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis

Jonathan Nash

Chapter 5.Narrating entanglements of British Colonialism and German National Socialism: Barbara Yelin’s Irmina as a disruptive history

Eeva Langeveld

Rita Maricocchi

Chapter 6.Performing the archive: Resisting Black female erasure on stage, page, and fabric

Elisabeth Knittelfelder

Chapter 7.Planetary crisis and the sympoietics of the pest

Jesse Arseneault

Chapter 8.‘Dangerous, Ugly Air’: Reckoning with atmospheric and photosynthetic injustice in Dying for Gold

Helene Strauss

Chapter 9.Mothering the anthropocene: Entropic satire in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Rūta Šlapkauskaitė

Chapter 10.Discovering the “in-common” in Magnet Theatre’s
Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking

Jill Planche

Afterword

Anna Guttman

Veronica J. Austen

Index