The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as ParadoxUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - 210 pagini This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, John Hawkes's Travesty, and others. |
Cuprins
Politics and Desire | 6 |
Feminism and Opposition | 18 |
Certainty and Difference | 24 |
Complicity and Democracy | 35 |
Sex Motherhood and the State | 43 |
The Body the Word and the State | 68 |
J M Coetzees Life and Times of Michael | 79 |
67 | 90 |
The Short Fiction of Grace Paley | 137 |
Theory Madness and the State Ibuse Masujis | 157 |
A Conclusion | 181 |
Notes | 183 |
119 | 197 |
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| 207 | |
Separation Assimilation and the State | 119 |
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The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox Barbara J. Eckstein Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 1990 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Adorno Adrienne Rich American analysis Antipolitics apartheid argues asserts assimilation authenticity Barbara Johnson Barbarians Bartleby Bialer Black Rain Body in Pain Book of Laughter Bordo certainty characters civilization Coetzee's complicity consciousness contemporary Critical Inquiry culture death deconstruction defines democracy describes Essays example Faith feminism feminist fiction Foucault Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gordimer's Grace Paley Havel Hiroshima human Ibid Ibuse Ibuse Masuji Ibuse's ideology internal difference J. M. Coetzee Japanese John Hawkes Joll Karel Konrád language Laughter and Forgetting Lifton literature madness Madness and Civilization magistrate marxism Michael Michael K Milan Kundera Mirek mother movement Nadine Gordimer narrator Negative Dialectics nuclear numbers Paley's Papa Papa's paradox photographs political race racial radical reader relationship Review rhetorical says Scarry separate sexual Shigematsu South African Spivak story Tamina theory tion torture trans Travesty truth United University Press voice W. W. Norton Woman Born women words writes York