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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Kassim, Dina, 1966- author.

Series:

Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 1.

FlashPoints ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest literature.

Subjectivity in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Psychoanalysis in literature.

Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

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 Arabic modernisms, she offers an ambitious theoretical perspective on the ongoing redefinition of modernism. She includes readings of Jane Bowles, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Oscar Wilde, and invokes a wide range of ideas, including those of Theodor Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, Jean Laplanche, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Politics of Address

1. On Being Stubborn

2. "The Bar Was Not Very Gay"

3. "A Long Tirade for a Direct Interjection"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612360091

9781282360099

1282360094

9780520945791

0520945794

OCLC:

574434582