Heterotopic World Fiction : Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History)

Higgins, Lesley/ Leps, Marie-Christine

Academic Studies Press（2022/09発売）

Academic Studies Press（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781644699959
• DDC分類 809.04

Full Description

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.

Contents

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

Parrhēsia: Dangerous Truth Telling   
Bios/Logos: Living Truth
Askēsis: 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