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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page iii
Lee Quinby. Genealogy and Literature Lee Quinby , editor M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
Lee Quinby. Genealogy and Literature Lee Quinby , editor M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
Page iv
... University Press , 1991 ) , 87–104 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press . Reprinted with permission . All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form ...
... University Press , 1991 ) , 87–104 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press . Reprinted with permission . All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form ...
Page xvii
... university curricula , or distinguishable as a rallying cry for radical democracy , has become a cam- paign strategy for politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress ...
... university curricula , or distinguishable as a rallying cry for radical democracy , has become a cam- paign strategy for politicians and multinational CEOs . This is not to say that assumptions of universality , teleology , and progress ...
Page xxv
... University's Annual American Studies Symposium in 1994.30 The symposium posed the question of which directions American studies might take in the nineties . In " Sex Matters : Genealogical Inquiries , Pedagogical Implications , " I ...
... University's Annual American Studies Symposium in 1994.30 The symposium posed the question of which directions American studies might take in the nineties . In " Sex Matters : Genealogical Inquiries , Pedagogical Implications , " I ...
Page xxvii
... University Press , 1977 ) , 148 . ume . 3. Ibid . , 146 . 4. See Michel Foucault , " The Functions of Literature , " reprinted as chapter 1 of this vol- 5. Although Foucault took issue with Derrida on the status of truth and methods of ...
... University Press , 1977 ) , 148 . ume . 3. Ibid . , 146 . 4. See Michel Foucault , " The Functions of Literature , " reprinted as chapter 1 of this vol- 5. Although Foucault took issue with Derrida on the status of truth and methods of ...
Contents
III | 5 |
IV | 7 |
VI | 13 |
VII | 32 |
VIII | 52 |
IX | 73 |
X | 75 |
XI | 77 |
XV | 112 |
XVII | 109 |
XVIII | 111 |
XIX | 97 |
XXI | 115 |
XXII | 109 |
XXIII | 89 |
XXIV | 93 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adolfo Bioy Casares Andean Arguedas Arguedas's suicide Ariel become body Caliban cannibalism century Césaire's clan colonization criticism Darío deaf death decolonization desire Desloges diary discourse egwugwu essay father Faustine Fernández fiction Foxes Frankenstein G. W. F. Hegel genealogy Greenaway's film Greenblatt Guibert's heterosexual Huarochirí humanist subject Hunter Ikemefuna Invention of Morel island José María Arguedas kill Kochan language literary literature madness magic realism male manhood Mannoni Mário de Andrade masculine Mbanta Melville Melville's Michel Foucault mimesis mimetic Miranda Mishima monster Morel myth of Huatyacuri mythic narrative narrator native novel Nwoye Nwoye's Obierika obsessive Okonkwo parodic patriarchal play political Prospero Prospero's Books Quechua question reading Renaissance Renaissance humanism Renan's representation represents Rodríguez Monegal scene sense sexual Shakespeare's Shange's signifier social soul stage story surplus Tempest theater theory tion trans Tutaykire Umuofia University Press Victor woman women writing yams York
Popular passages
Page xviii - To make use of the polylingualism of one's own language, to make a minor or intensive use of it, to oppose the oppressed quality of this language to its oppressive quality, to find points of nonculture or underdevelopment, linguistic Third World zones by which a language can escape, an animal enters into things, an assemblage comes into play.
Page xxi - Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches oneself from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.
Page xvi - Let us give the term genealogy to the union of erudite knowledge and local memories which allows us to establish a historical knowledge of struggles and to make use of this knowledge tactically today.