Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau, eds.The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature. London and New York: Routledge. 2018. 288 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-138-58412-9 (hbk). ISBN: 978-0-429-50584-3 (ebk). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505843/.

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.