On Pain of Speech - Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-25925-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Reihe: FlashPoints

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al-Kassim, Dina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Politics of Address

1. On Being Stubborn

Oscar Wilde and the Modern Type

2. “The Bar Was Not Very Gay”

New Kinship and the Serious Writer’s Block

3. “A Long Tirade for a Direct Interjection”

Talismano Rebukes the Oriental Tale in Jacques Lacan’s Séminaires

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.