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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... Body , Tortured Soul : Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses , Ellen J. Goldner 28 4. Indians , Polynesians , and Empire Making : The Case of Herman Melville Malini Johar Schueller 48 Part II : A Language Poised against Death ...
... Body , Tortured Soul : Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses , Ellen J. Goldner 28 4. Indians , Polynesians , and Empire Making : The Case of Herman Melville Malini Johar Schueller 48 Part II : A Language Poised against Death ...
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... Body / Talk : Mishima , Masturbation , and Self - Performativity Donald H. Mengay 193 12. " Dreadful Dioramas " : Guibert's Countermemories Kate Mehuron 211 Contributors 225 Index 229 Acknowledgments I am grateful to the contributors to ...
... Body / Talk : Mishima , Masturbation , and Self - Performativity Donald H. Mengay 193 12. " Dreadful Dioramas " : Guibert's Countermemories Kate Mehuron 211 Contributors 225 Index 229 Acknowledgments I am grateful to the contributors to ...
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... bodies and in bodily reactions , of those who collaborate as well as those who resist . As Foucault puts it , " the body manifests the stigmata of past experience and also gives rise to desires , failings , and errors . " 2 Bodily ...
... bodies and in bodily reactions , of those who collaborate as well as those who resist . As Foucault puts it , " the body manifests the stigmata of past experience and also gives rise to desires , failings , and errors . " 2 Bodily ...
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... Body , Tortured Soul : Frankenstein at the Juncture be- tween Discourses , " Ellen J. Goldner traces this shift by exploring Mary Shel- ley's novel as a site of contestation between the entrenched discourse of the public spectacle of ...
... Body , Tortured Soul : Frankenstein at the Juncture be- tween Discourses , " Ellen J. Goldner traces this shift by exploring Mary Shel- ley's novel as a site of contestation between the entrenched discourse of the public spectacle of ...
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... bodies to crops . His analysis of the village's egwugwu life practices demonstrates an internal crisis that diffuses efforts of resistance against Christian colonization . By focusing on the means by which clan genealogy disallows any ...
... bodies to crops . His analysis of the village's egwugwu life practices demonstrates an internal crisis that diffuses efforts of resistance against Christian colonization . By focusing on the means by which clan genealogy disallows any ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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