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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784367103321

Titolo

Genealogy and literature [[electronic resource] /] / Lee Quinby, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8632-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

QuinbyLee <1946->

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Social structure in literature

Canon (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature; Part I: To Know What Literature Is; 1. The Functions of Literature; 2. Universalizing Marginality: How Europe Became Deaf in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Monstrous Body, Tortured Soul: Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses; 4. Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: The Case of Herman Melville; Part II: A Language Poised against Death; 5. Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis; 6. Cannibalizing the Humanist Subject: A Genealogy of Prospero

7. Grounds for Decolonization: Arguedas's Foxes8. Genealogical Determinism in Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Part III: Seeking the Limits of the Possible; 9. Sex Matters: Genealogical Inquiries, Pedagogical Implications; 10. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; 11. Body/Talk: Mishima, Masturbation, and Self-Performativity; 12. ""Dreadful Dioramas"": Guibert's Countermemories; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.