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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... Politics Philosophy Culture : Interviews and Other Writings , 1977-1984 , edited and with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman . Reprinted with permission of Editions Gallimard and the estate of Michel Foucault . English translation ...
... Politics Philosophy Culture : Interviews and Other Writings , 1977-1984 , edited and with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman . Reprinted with permission of Editions Gallimard and the estate of Michel Foucault . English translation ...
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... politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress have been cast off . On the contrary , they have been readorned through new articulations . The post- Foucauldian task ...
... politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress have been cast off . On the contrary , they have been readorned through new articulations . The post- Foucauldian task ...
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... political reality that renders it true , one ' fictions ' a politics that doesn't yet exist starting from an historical truth . " 22 As a work like Jazz so amply illustrates , literary fiction can serve as a compelling fictioning of ...
... political reality that renders it true , one ' fictions ' a politics that doesn't yet exist starting from an historical truth . " 22 As a work like Jazz so amply illustrates , literary fiction can serve as a compelling fictioning of ...
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... political thought for such a long time . " 24 I would add here that through such an approach we combat the system of Truth and Au- thor that has captivated literary thought for so long . But resistance at one moment and in a particular ...
... political thought for such a long time . " 24 I would add here that through such an approach we combat the system of Truth and Au- thor that has captivated literary thought for so long . But resistance at one moment and in a particular ...
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... political technologies that totalize a society , chapter 4 focuses on mid - nineteenth - century dis- courses of colonialism , race classification , and literature . Malini Johar Schueller's " Indians , Polynesians , and Empire Making ...
... political technologies that totalize a society , chapter 4 focuses on mid - nineteenth - century dis- courses of colonialism , race classification , and literature . Malini Johar Schueller's " Indians , Polynesians , and Empire Making ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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