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The Misinterpellated Subject /

James R. Martel complicates Louis Althusser's theory of interpellation, using historical and literary analyses ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Ta-Nehisi Coates to examine the political and revolutionary potential inherent in the instances when people heed the state's call that was n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martel, James R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From "Hey, you there!" to "Wait up!" : the workings (and unworkings) of interpellation
  • "Men are born free and equal in rights" : historical examples of interpellation and misinterpellation
  • "Tiens, un negre" : Fanon and the refusal of colonial subjectivity
  • "[A person] is something that shall be overcome" : the misinterpellated messiah, or how Nietzsche saves us from salvation
  • "Come, come!" : Bartleby and Lily Briscoe as Nietzschean subjects
  • "Consent to not be a single being" : resisting identity, confronting the law in Kafka's Amerika, Ellison's Invisible man, and Coates's Between the world and me
  • "I can believe" : breaking the circuits of interpellation in Von Trier's Breaking the waves.