Genealogy and LiteratureLee Quinby Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society. The authors explore the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, the links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation. Through wide-ranging investigations of writing from England, France, Nigeria, Peru, Japan, and the United States, they reinvigorate the study of literature as a means of understanding the complexities of everyday experience. Contributors: Claudette Kemper Columbus, Lennard J. Davis, Simon During, Michel Foucault, Ellen J. Goldner, Tom Hayes, Kate Mehuron, Donald Mengay, Imafedia Okhamafe, Lee Quinby, Jose David Saldivar, and Malini Johar Schueller. |
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Lee Quinby. Genealogy and Literature Lee Quinby , editor M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
Lee Quinby. Genealogy and Literature Lee Quinby , editor M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
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... University Press , 1991 ) , 87–104 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press . Reprinted with permission . All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form ...
... University Press , 1991 ) , 87–104 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press . Reprinted with permission . All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form ...
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... university curricula , or distinguishable as a rallying cry for radical democracy , has become a cam- paign strategy for politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress ...
... university curricula , or distinguishable as a rallying cry for radical democracy , has become a cam- paign strategy for politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress ...
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... University's Annual American Studies Symposium in 1994.30 The symposium posed the question of which directions American studies might take in the nineties . In " Sex Matters : Genealogical Inquiries , Pedagogical Implications , " I ...
... University's Annual American Studies Symposium in 1994.30 The symposium posed the question of which directions American studies might take in the nineties . In " Sex Matters : Genealogical Inquiries , Pedagogical Implications , " I ...
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... University Press , 1977 ) , 148 . ume . 3. Ibid . , 146 . 4. See Michel Foucault , " The Functions of Literature , " reprinted as chapter 1 of this vol- 5. Although Foucault took issue with Derrida on the status of truth and methods of ...
... University Press , 1977 ) , 148 . ume . 3. Ibid . , 146 . 4. See Michel Foucault , " The Functions of Literature , " reprinted as chapter 1 of this vol- 5. Although Foucault took issue with Derrida on the status of truth and methods of ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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