Title Statements
- Full title :Genealogy and literature / Lee Quinby (editor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges).
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minnesota
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:272 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0816625611, 9780816625611, 0816625603, 9780816625604
- oclc:ocm60191449
- LC Classification:PN56.S654G
- Dewey Decimal:809
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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