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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... narrative conventions of a historical novel . And even though genealogical fiction may employ postmodern narrative techniques in order to break with the narrative coherence of conventional historical fiction , it does not promul- gate a ...
... narrative conventions of a historical novel . And even though genealogical fiction may employ postmodern narrative techniques in order to break with the narrative coherence of conventional historical fiction , it does not promul- gate a ...
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... narrative here , for it has been well circulated , if not established in practice , that history is fiction in the ... narratives so as to prob- lematize the founding tenets of accepted ( " acceptable " ) history : the tracing of origin ...
... narrative here , for it has been well circulated , if not established in practice , that history is fiction in the ... narratives so as to prob- lematize the founding tenets of accepted ( " acceptable " ) history : the tracing of origin ...
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... narrative of Frankenstein and modern subject formation situates literature as productive of the shifts from sovereign to bio - power . She shows that the ambivalence expressed within the novel about the alienation effects of ...
... narrative of Frankenstein and modern subject formation situates literature as productive of the shifts from sovereign to bio - power . She shows that the ambivalence expressed within the novel about the alienation effects of ...
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... narrative boundary - sites in which racial and gender demar- cation occurs . Precisely because such reappropriation is not inevitable , as some modes of current criticism seem resigned to conclude , this kind of at- tention is ...
... narrative boundary - sites in which racial and gender demar- cation occurs . Precisely because such reappropriation is not inevitable , as some modes of current criticism seem resigned to conclude , this kind of at- tention is ...
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... narrative of resistance to modes of colonization . Against colonization , which she argues is a defining feature of power rela- tions , are possibilities of decolonization , which The Foxes enacts by enfold- ing the violations of time ...
... narrative of resistance to modes of colonization . Against colonization , which she argues is a defining feature of power rela- tions , are possibilities of decolonization , which The Foxes enacts by enfold- ing the violations of time ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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