A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction 9780814256626

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Автор: Lee Sue-Im
Название: A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9780814256626
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
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Литература: история и критика

ISBN-10: 0814256627
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.31 кг.
Дата издания: 07.07.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 12
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The paradox of community in contemporary fiction
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Why are some versions of the collective we admired and desired while other versions are scorned and feared? A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction examines the conflict over the collective we through discourses of community. In the discourse of benevolent community, community is a tool towards achieving healing, productiveness, and connection. In the discourse of dissenting community, community that serves a function is simply another name for totalitarianism; instead, community must merely be a fact of coexistence. What are the sources and the appeal of these irreconcilable views of community, and how do they interact in contemporary fictions attempt at imagining we? By engaging contemporary U.S. writers such as Toni Morrison, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, Lydia Davis, Lynne Tillman, and David Markson with theorists such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Fran ois Lyotard, Ernesto Laclau, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book reveals how the two conflicting discourses of community-benevolent and dissenting-are inextricably intertwined in various literary visions of we-we of the family, of the world, of the human, and of coexistence. These literary visions demonstrate, in a way that popular visions of community and postmodern theories of community cannot, the dialectical relationship between the discourses of benevolent community and dissenting community. Sue-Im Lee argues that contemporary fictions inability to resolve the paradox results in a model of ambivalent community, one that offers unique insights into community and into the very notion of unity.

A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction, Lee Sue-Im