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The disorder of things : a Foucauldian approach to the work of Nuruddin Farah /

Offering a reading of the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah through the prism of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, this book argues that the preoccupations that have remained central throughout Farah's 40 year career-including political autocracy, border conflicts, international aid and deve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Masterson, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2013.
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Principal Works of Nuruddin Farah as Referred to in The Disorder of Things; 1 Taking On Foucault and Fleshing Out Farah: Opportunities for Dialogue and Reflections on Method; Locating Farah; Why Farah? Why Foucault? Why Now?; Spectres of Foucault: To Savage or Salvage?; Edward Said: Speaking the Truth to Foucault; Foucault in/and Africa; Disturbing Postcolonial Studies: Foucault-style; Farah and Foucault: Reflections on Beginnings. 
505 8 |a 2 Quivering at the Heart of the Variations Cycle: Labyrinths of Loss in Sweet and Sour MilkNegotiating the Labyrinth: Texts and Contexts; The State as Stage: Torture and Performance in Sweet and Sour Milk; Shall I Be Released?; Architectures of Power and Resistance; 3 So Vast the Prison: Agonistic Power Relations in Sardines; Writing/Righting Rape; Tremulous Private and Public Bodies; The Building Blocks of Resistance; Foucault and FGM; Mourning Yet on Creation Day; 'Writers don't give prescriptions, they give headaches!'; To Guernica with Love. 
505 8 |a 4 Through the Maze Darkly: Incarceration and Insurrection in Close SesameThe Writer as Doctor: Revolting Bodies and the Optics of Surveillance; The Optics of Malveillance; Madness and (Un)Civilisation: Spectres of the 'Mad Mullah'; Fleshing Out the Truth about Power; 5 From the Carceral to the Bio-political: The Dialectical Turn Inwards in Maps; The Bloody Pivot of the Ogaden War; Misra, Biopower and Ethnocentrism; Constructions and Destructions of the (M)Other; Psychosomatics and War; Hallucinating Foucault/Transforming Farah; Foucault and/on Biopolitics and Race. 
505 8 |a Bifurcated Bodies and Split SubjectsGaping Open: Textual Cycles and National Bodies in Maps; 6 'A Call to Alms': Gifts and the Possibilities of a Foucauldian Reading; The (In)Visibility of Giving; Foucault and the Tapestry of Aid; Towards a Foucauldian Genealogy of Humanitarianism; The Poetics and Politics of (Un)Conditional Giving; 'O my body, make of me always a man who questions!'; 7 Trajectories of Implosion and Explosion: The Politics of Blood and Betrayal in Secrets; The Poetics and Politics of Revulsion; Knots, Links and the Processes of Globalisation. 
505 8 |a The Disorder of Things: Normalisation and TabooReconfiguring a Symbolics of Blood: Taboo and Transgression in Secrets; 'There Must Be Some Way Out of Here'; Mixed-up Confusion; 8 Bringing It All Back Home: Theorising Diaspora and War in Yesterday, Tomorrow and Links; Taxonomies of the Human: Globalisation and Displacement; Reflections on Blamocracy; Bare Life and Transnational Travels/Travails Through a Bio-political Lens; Reception, Rejection and the Brotherhood of Man; Malawi and/as Disney: Reflections on Links; 'The Vietmalia Syndrome': The Poetics of Postmodern Warfare. 
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