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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... Writing ( London and New York : Routledge , 1992 ) , 186–207 . Reprinted with permission . " The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston , South Carolina : Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass , Cypress & Indigo , " by José David Saldivar , was ...
... Writing ( London and New York : Routledge , 1992 ) , 186–207 . Reprinted with permission . " The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston , South Carolina : Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass , Cypress & Indigo , " by José David Saldivar , was ...
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... writing about are those that produce active engagement in these problems , a con- scious sense of involvement in them . " 12 During's own literary criticism fo- cuses on death in terms of the rise of realism and modern medicine in such ...
... writing about are those that produce active engagement in these problems , a con- scious sense of involvement in them . " 12 During's own literary criticism fo- cuses on death in terms of the rise of realism and modern medicine in such ...
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... writing . His analysis of the simulta- neous marginalization and universalization of deafness during this period also puts a new light on class power dynamics by demonstrating how social inequities were structured through the emergence ...
... writing . His analysis of the simulta- neous marginalization and universalization of deafness during this period also puts a new light on class power dynamics by demonstrating how social inequities were structured through the emergence ...
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... writing so as not to die . " It contains startlingly ahistorical remarks , as in the following : " Death is undoubtedly the most essential of the accidents of lan- guage ( its limit and its center ) : from the day that men began to ...
... writing so as not to die . " It contains startlingly ahistorical remarks , as in the following : " Death is undoubtedly the most essential of the accidents of lan- guage ( its limit and its center ) : from the day that men began to ...
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Lee Quinby. in the texts of Sade and gothic writers of terror . These works embody words with sensation through their emphasis on terror , pain , and pleasure . But any such writing is also " of so little density that it is fated to ...
Lee Quinby. in the texts of Sade and gothic writers of terror . These works embody words with sensation through their emphasis on terror , pain , and pleasure . But any such writing is also " of so little density that it is fated to ...
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.