A01=Dina Al-Kassim
Author_Dina Al-Kassim
avant garde
biopolitical
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civil rights
decadent modernism
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euro american
francophone arabic
free address
freedom of speech
freud
human rights
intersectional
judith butler
lacan
literary
literary criticism
literary rant
literary theory
modern history
modernism
nonfiction
oscar wilde
political science
politics of address
postcolonialism
psychoanalysis
queer studies
redefinition
resistance
rights
self expression
speech
subjection
theoretical perspective
thought provoking
Product details
- ISBN 9780520259256
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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.
Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
