Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps

Heterotopic World Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644699973
• Artikelnr.: 64159791

Autorenporträt

Lesley Higgins, Professor of English at York University, specializes in late Victorian and modernist studies. Author of The Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics, she has also edited three volumes of Gerard Manley Hopkins's prose. Research interests include world literature, feminist studies of modernism, textual studies, and poetry.

Marie-Christine Leps, Associate Professor of English at York University, is founding coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in World Literature. Author of Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance, she specializes in literary and cultural theory, world literature, and discourse analysis. Her current project focuses on world fictions of friendship.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations                  List of Figures                     Introduction: Heterotopic World Fiction Part One.   Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual    Correlating Knowledge and Power Relations: The Birth of Biopolitics Discipline and Punish: Discerning the Dangerous      Mrs. Dalloway: A Dangerous Day In the Skin of a Lion: Dangerous Yearnings       Part Two.   Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly Self From Biopolitics to Biopoetics Concepts Parrh
sia: Dangerous Truth Telling    Bios/Logos: Living Truth Ask
sis: The Art of Elaborating the Self as a Practice of Freedom Experience-Books: Altering Truths                Heterotopic Methods       Method 1
Disposing/Transposing the Archive: Criminal Vanishing Acts    Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur, et mon frère . . . The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems  Flush: A Biography       Method 2
Distracting/Transacting Genealogy: Reading for One
s Life    Between the Acts The English Patient The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 Method 3
Dislocating/Transiting Strategics: Reading Biopoetic Assemblages Foucault 1: The History of Sexuality, vols. 2, 3, 4 Foucault 2: Answering Questions    Woolf 1:
. . . very little persuaded of the truth of anything
Woolf 2: Orlando Woolf 3: The Waves Ondaatje 1:
[W]e can
t rely on only one voice
Ondaatje 2: Warlight Ondaatje 3: Running in the Family Ondaatje 4: The Cat
s Table      Figures        Selected Bibliography      Index