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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... fiction , yet the aura of " great works " remains sufficient to draw on them for everything from computer ads to new films . This does not suggest that these works remain somehow " alive " or give us insight into " human na- ture ...
... fiction , yet the aura of " great works " remains sufficient to draw on them for everything from computer ads to new films . This does not suggest that these works remain somehow " alive " or give us insight into " human na- ture ...
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... Fiction Literary artists themselves can help direct genealogical efforts to desacralize literature . One of the boldest examples of what I call " genealogical fiction " is Toni Morrison's novel jazz , published in 1992. Bringing ...
... Fiction Literary artists themselves can help direct genealogical efforts to desacralize literature . One of the boldest examples of what I call " genealogical fiction " is Toni Morrison's novel jazz , published in 1992. Bringing ...
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... fiction . This is the thrust of David Mason's com- ments when he states that his impression " on finishing Toni Morrison's lat- est historical fiction was that here was a short story inflated by literary style . " He echoes the ...
... fiction . This is the thrust of David Mason's com- ments when he states that his impression " on finishing Toni Morrison's lat- est historical fiction was that here was a short story inflated by literary style . " He echoes the ...
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... fiction in the sense that it is representation . The point I do want to stress is that , even though both disciplinary history and genealogy are necessarily fiction , they are different kinds of fiction in several important ways ...
... fiction in the sense that it is representation . The point I do want to stress is that , even though both disciplinary history and genealogy are necessarily fiction , they are different kinds of fiction in several important ways ...
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... fiction ac- counted for two - thirds of all books purchased . See " Even Stephen King Might Get Scared by These Figures , " Wall Street Journal ( 10 January 1992 ) : B2 . 10. Stanley Fish , " Why Literary Criticism Is Like Virtue ...
... fiction ac- counted for two - thirds of all books purchased . See " Even Stephen King Might Get Scared by These Figures , " Wall Street Journal ( 10 January 1992 ) : B2 . 10. Stanley Fish , " Why Literary Criticism Is Like Virtue ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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