Genealogy and literature

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Genealogy and literature

Lee Quinby, editor

University of Minnesota Press, c1995

  • hbk.
  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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hbk. ISBN 9780816625604

Description

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 ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, the links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of disseminating 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.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 To know what literature is: the functions of literature, Michel Foucault
  • universalizing marginality - how Europe became deaf in the 18th century, Lennard J. Davis
  • monstrous body, tortured soul - Frankenstein at the juncture between discourses, Ellen J. Goldner
  • Indians, Polynesians and empire making - the case of Herman Melville, Malini Johar Schueller. Part 2 A language poised against death: post-Foucauldian criticism - government, death, mimesis, Simon During
  • cannibalizing the humanist subject - a genealogy of Prospero, Tom Hayes
  • grounds for decolonization - Argueda's "Foxes", Claudette Kemper Columbus
  • genealogical determinism in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", Imafedia Okhamafe. Part 3 Seeking the limits of the possible: sex matters - genealogical inquiries, pedagogical implications, Lee Quinby
  • the real and the marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina - Notzake Shange's "Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo", Jose David Saldivar
  • body/talk - Mishima, masturbation and self-performativity, Donald H. Mengay
  • dreadful dioramas - Guibert's countermemories, Kate Mehuron.
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pbk. ISBN 9780816625611

Description

Genealogy and Literature was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. 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, Malini Johar Schueller. Lee Quinby is professor of English and American studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism (Minnesota, 1994).

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 To know what literature is: the functions of literature, Michel Foucault
  • universalizing marginality - how Europe became deaf in the 18th century, Lennard J. Davis
  • monstrous body, tortured soul - Frankenstein at the juncture between discourses, Ellen J. Goldner
  • Indians, Polynesians and empire making - the case of Herman Melville, Malini Johar Schueller. Part 2 A language poised against death: post-Foucauldian criticism - government, death, mimesis, Simon During
  • cannibalizing the humanist subject - a genealogy of Prospero, Tom Hayes
  • grounds for decolonization - Argueda's "Foxes", Claudette Kemper Columbus
  • genealogical determinism in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", Imafedia Okhamafe. Part 3 Seeking the limits of the possible: sex matters - genealogical inquiries, pedagogical implications, Lee Quinby
  • the real and the marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina - Notzake Shange's "Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo", Jose David Saldivar
  • body/talk - Mishima, masturbation and self-performativity, Donald H. Mengay
  • dreadful dioramas - Guibert's countermemories, Kate Mehuron.

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