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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... cultural sites that fuel uncertain- ties about conduct and call forth efforts to understand their meanings and consequences . Along with music , film , philosophy , law , news media , and the visual arts , literature is one of the ...
... cultural sites that fuel uncertain- ties about conduct and call forth efforts to understand their meanings and consequences . Along with music , film , philosophy , law , news media , and the visual arts , literature is one of the ...
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... cultural studies brings together literature , law , and popular culture . The juxtaposition of these varying discourses highlights the rules and regulations that define them as well as establishing points of intersection among them ...
... cultural studies brings together literature , law , and popular culture . The juxtaposition of these varying discourses highlights the rules and regulations that define them as well as establishing points of intersection among them ...
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... cultural contexts . Fou- cault's own application of this approach during the interview is consonant with his remarks in the History of Sexuality about resistances as multiple , changing , sometimes necessary and at other times ...
... cultural contexts . Fou- cault's own application of this approach during the interview is consonant with his remarks in the History of Sexuality about resistances as multiple , changing , sometimes necessary and at other times ...
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... cultural analysis . I mean this in two senses : as genealogists we are partial or committed to the democratic struggles we investigate , and our investigations will necessarily be partial rather than complete and absolute . The specific ...
... cultural analysis . I mean this in two senses : as genealogists we are partial or committed to the democratic struggles we investigate , and our investigations will necessarily be partial rather than complete and absolute . The specific ...
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... cultures following the Second World War created a cultural flux akin to what Western readers have come to know as the postmodern condition . Yukio Mishima's Confes- sions of a Mask ( English translation , 1958 ) is particularly ...
... cultures following the Second World War created a cultural flux akin to what Western readers have come to know as the postmodern condition . Yukio Mishima's Confes- sions of a Mask ( English translation , 1958 ) is particularly ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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