Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781472543790
Content:
"Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critically engaged exploration of power and its relation to ethics and bodies. By revisiting and revising Judith Butler's and Homi Bhabha's queer and postcolonial theories of literary performance, McCormack expands current understandings of the performative workings of power through an embodied, multisensory ethics. That remembering is an embodied act which necessitates an undoing of one's sense of self captures how colonial and familial histories silenced by hegemonic structures may only emerge through opaque bodily sensations. These non-institutionalised forms of witnessing serve both to reconfigure theories of performativity, by re-situating the act of witnessing as integral to the workings of power, and to interrogate the current emphasis on speech in trauma studies, by analysing the multifarious, communal and public ways in which memories emerge. In Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing the body is reinstated as central to both the workings of and the challenges to colonial discourses."--
Content:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction: Embodied Memories Queer Postcolonial Narratives, or A Note on MethodologyPerformative Listening Historicizing WitnessingQueer Postcolonial StructureChapter One: Intergenerational Witnessing in Cereus Blooms at Night Unknowing PainHistoricizing Responsibility Embodied SurvivalIntergenerational Witnessing Chapter Two: Monstrous Witnessing in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable Embodied StoriesLinguistic TouchingMonstrous EncountersTactile CorrespondenceEmbodied AllegoriesPerformative PainCoda: Eyes at the Tips of the Fingers: Materializing the Self in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit sacre;e Chapter Three: Fossil Witnessing in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees Unknowing the FamilyWitnessing Photographs Painting MemoriesMemories as StorytellingIntergenerational FossilsConclusion: Silent Bodies, or Speaking with the Body Decolonizing NormativityVisceral Storytelling, or Multisensory EpistemologiesPerformative EndingsEmbodied EncountersBibliography Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441111005
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441113788
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441163103
Additional Edition:
Available in another form
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
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Sociology
Keywords:
Queer-Theorie
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Postkolonialismus
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Macht
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Zeuge
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Gewalt
DOI:
10.5040/9781472543790
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