National Abjection' explores the vexed relationship between 'Asian Americanness' and 'Americanness' - through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in US culture are a function of national abjection.
Explores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable.
Explores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable.
National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between "Asian Americanness" and "Americanness" through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in U.S. culture are a function of national abjection -- a proc…
Cast down: abjection in America, 1700-1850
"Derived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of th…
Pouvoirs de l'horreur: essai sur l'abjection
Pouvoirs de l'horreur: essai sur l'abjection
Pouvoirs de l'horreur: essai sur l'abjection
Pouvoirs de l horreur: essai sur l abjection
Pouvoirs de l'horreur Pourquoi l'abjection ? Pourquoi y a-t-il ce " quelque chose " qui n'est ni sujet, ni objet, mais qui, sans cesse, revient, révulse, repousse, fascine ? Pourquoi de l'abject ? Ce n'est pas de la névrose. On l'entrevoit dans la phobie, la psychose. Il s'agit …
Pouvoirs de l'horreur: essai sur l'abjection
See pp. 203-219, "Juivre ou mourir", on the antisemitism in Célines pamphlets.
This deeply persuasive book presents a new and profound approach to the testimony of the Holocaust. Nicholas Chare offers a critical reassessment of the writings on the abject by Julia Kristeva, including her best known, highly influential work 'Powers of Horror', first translat…