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Heterotopic world fiction : thinking beyond biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje /
"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 counter-development of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brookline, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Studies in comparative literature and intellectual history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 counter-development of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Woolf, Foucault, and 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. Our work defines and explores a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781644699973 1644699974 1644699966 9781644699966 |