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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... are produced and distributed . It attends as well to the alterations of the field , highlighting modes of resistance within both literature and literary criticism and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by xi.
... are produced and distributed . It attends as well to the alterations of the field , highlighting modes of resistance within both literature and literary criticism and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by xi.
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Lee Quinby. and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by which sacralized literature , literary criticism , and literary theory fortify a power / knowledge formation that justifies hierarchy , commits violences in the name ...
Lee Quinby. and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by which sacralized literature , literary criticism , and literary theory fortify a power / knowledge formation that justifies hierarchy , commits violences in the name ...
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... means of knowledge production . It does indicate that genealogy is to be an ongoing task — that a genealogical approach includes investigating how sacralization recurs , even within critical discourses such as feminism , deconstruction ...
... means of knowledge production . It does indicate that genealogy is to be an ongoing task — that a genealogical approach includes investigating how sacralization recurs , even within critical discourses such as feminism , deconstruction ...
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... means that literary studies today can provide a way of clarifying the power dynamics that considered literature to be so necessary for civilization that it became central to modern educational institutions at every level and was used as ...
... means that literary studies today can provide a way of clarifying the power dynamics that considered literature to be so necessary for civilization that it became central to modern educational institutions at every level and was used as ...
Contents
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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.