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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806285803321

Autore

Claviez Thomas

Titolo

The Common Growl : Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community / / Thomas Claviez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8232-7096-3

0-8232-7095-5

0-8232-7094-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Collana

Commonalities

Altri autori (Persone)

NancyJean-Luc

Disciplina

307

307.01

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Society in literature

Communities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: THE COMMON GROWL -- INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A POETICS OF COMMUNITY -- COMMUNITY AND ETHNOS -- A METONYMIC COMMUNITY? TOWARD A POETICS OF CONTINGENCY -- POETICS OF ANXIETY AND SECURITY -- LITERATURE, THE WORLD, AND YOU -- LITERARY COMMUNITIES -- ANTIRACISM AND (RE)HUMANIZATION -- CAN SOCIETY BE COMMODITIES ALL THE WAY DOWN? -- TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT AESTHETICO- POLITICAL FORMS OF COMMUNITY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- WORKS CITED -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.