Heterotopic World Fiction - Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Hardcover)

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Lesley Higgins • Marie-Christine Leps
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-64469-995-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-64469-995-8
Barcode:	9781644699959

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