On pain of speech : fantasies of the first order and the literary rant / Dina Al-Kassim.

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Al-Kassim, Dina, 1966-

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TextSeries: Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 1.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 291 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520945791
0520945794

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On pain of speechDDC classification:

809/.9112 22

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PN56.M54

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Contents:

Introduction: The politics of address -- On being stubborn : Oscar Wilde and the modern type -- "The bar was not very gay" : new kinship and the serious writer's block -- "A long tirade for a direct interjection" : Talismano rebukes the oriental tale in Jacques Lacan's Séminaires.

Summary: On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the ""politics of address, "" Dina Al-Kassim views the rant through the lens of Michel Foucault's notion of the biopolitical subject and finds that its abject address is an essential yet overlooked feature of modernism. Deftly approaching disparate fields-decadent modernism, queer studies, subjection, critical psychoanalysis, and postcolonial avant-garde-and encompassing both Euro-American and Francophone Arab.

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On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the ""politics of address, "" Dina Al-Kassim views the rant through the lens of Michel Foucault's notion of the biopolitical subject and finds that its abject address is an essential yet overlooked feature of modernism. Deftly approaching disparate fields-decadent modernism, queer studies, subjection, critical psychoanalysis, and postcolonial avant-garde-and encompassing both Euro-American and Francophone Arab.

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