scholarly journals Family Romances in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márta Asztalos
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Fathers And Sons

This paper examines narration and storytelling in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Narration and storytelling are a paternal legacy and a family destiny as well, which bind the son to the father and the Grandfather. However, they also become the means of overwriting the paternal meta-narrative and endeavors of narrative self-fathering, self-begetting. In this reading, the “story-weaving” of the narrators and the story woven (by them) swirl around the same conflict: the “battle” of fathers and sons. It is explored how these paternal-filial power relations and conflicts work in both “layers” of the novel and how they influence each other. The argument will build on the insights of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, especially the theory of the Freudian family romance.

Jane Austen’s Questioning of Gender and Genres

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Laure MASSEI-CHAMAYOU
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Conduct Books ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
Opposite View

If Jane Austen admits in her correspondence that she was eventually pleased with Thomas Gisborne’s Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797), the Anglican theologian nonetheless endorsed the prejudices shared by most eighteenth-century moralists towards novels. Now, in Northanger Abbey, a novel filled with literary allusions, Jane Austen’s narrator bravely takes the opposite view by launching into a bold defence of the genre. Besides resorting to a biting irony to scrutinize her society’s axioms, rules and power relations, her novels notably question Manichean representations of masculine and feminine roles. Jane Austen’s choice to distance herself from the strictly gendered models inherited from conduct books, sentimental, or gothic novels, further combines with her questioning of generic conventions. This article thus aims at exploring how Jane Austen engaged with these representations while articulating her subtle didacticism. Her aim was not merely to raise the respectability of the novel genre, but also to provide a possible answer to the crisis of values that was threatening the very foundations of the political and social order.

Werewolf Wollstonecraft

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-274
Author(s):  
Chris Washington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Dynamic Power ◽  
Karen Barad

The judicial bestiary at the heart of eighteenth-century politics has long been evident in Enlightenment social contract debates, as Michel Foucault’s and Giorgio Agamben’s theories of biopolitics show. In this essay, I argue that Wollstonecraft is nonetheless the first thinker of ‘true’ werewolf out-lawry in her final novel, Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman and in her letters to Godwin. In the novel, Wollstonecraft leverages what we now call new materialism as a feminist critique of heteropatriarchal society. Wollstonecraft’s new materialist thinking also scrambles gender across even human and nonhuman distinctions. To counter microcosmic familial and macrocosmic state heteropatriarchy, Wollstonecraft theorizes what I am calling, following the example of wolves and werewolves, not a family but a ‘pack’. The pack manifests as new spacetimes through what Karen Barad terms “quantum entanglements” that produce love between subjects and subjects but that never strives to reproduce binaristic pairings that reproduce the sovereign family. A pack, as Wollstonecraft’s texts demonstrate, emerges from processes of co-creation that iterate new subjects and objects without dynamic power structures structured around stable gender identities or human and nonhuman power relations.

The Decolonization of the Environment in Kazakhstan: The Novel Final Respects by Abdi-Jamil Nurpeisov

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Sharipova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fishing Village ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
Entire World

AbstractThis article examines the novel Final Respects by Abdi-Jamil Nurpeisov from a postcolonial ecocritical perspective. Nurpeisov was one of the first Kazakh writers to discuss the decolonization of the environment and the “process of self-apprehension” by writing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea, power relations between the center and periphery, and the interconnectivity of humans and the environment in the Soviet Union. Through the prism of a small fishing village, he shows the tragedy of a nation that has an impact on the entire world. The novel is thus a critique of anthropocentric policies imposed by Moscow on Kazakhstan and other Soviet republics. Throughout the text, Nurpeisov reiterates the connection between the local and the global on one hand, and human culture and the environment on the other.

PREDADORES: quando a literatura narra as relações de poder em Angola

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIO DE ALMEIDA CARVALHO FILHO
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Relations Of Power

Este artigo esquadrinha as relações de poder, em Angola, emergentes em Predadores, romance escrito por Pepetela, um dos mais instigantes intelectuais angolanos da atualidade. Ao delinear como o autor narra o ”outro”, em especial, a apropriação do público pelo privado, assim como o oportunismo polá­tico, detectamos os contornos de seu posicionamento polá­tico. As principais temáticas sobre as relações de poder, recortadas nessa obra, comprovam que a sua literatura estrutura uma crá­tica sócio-polá­tica, extremamente perspicaz, da sociedade e dos Estados angolanos contemporá¢neos. Palavras-chave: Angola. Pepetela. Relações de Poder.  PREDADORES: when literature recounts the relations of power in Angola Abstract: This article discusses the power relations in emergent Angola inPredadores, a novel written by Pepetela, one of the most intriguing Angolan scholars nowadays. By analyzing how the author narrates the ”other”, in particular, the appropriation of the public by the private sector, we can identify the contours of his political stance. The main themes on the power relations focused on the novel evidence that his literature structures extremely clever socio-political criticism of both Angolan contemporary society and State. Keywords: Angola. Pepetela. Power relations.  PREDADORES: cuando la literatura narra las relaciones de poder en AngolaResumen: Este artá­culo explora las relaciones de poder en Angola emergentes en Predadores, novela escrita por Pepetela, uno de los más importantes intelectuales angoleños hoy. Para esbozarcómo el autor dice el "otro", en particular la apropiación de público para el oportunismo privado, asá­ como polá­tica, detectamos su posicionamiento polá­tico. Las principales temáticas sobre lasrelaciones de poder recortadas en este trabajo vienen comprobar que la literatura estructura una crá­tica sociopolá­tica bastante perspicaz de la sociedad y de los Estados angoleños contemporáneos. Palabras clave: Angola. Pepetela. Relaciones de poder.  

Her Mother Her Self: The Ethics of the Antigone Family Romance

Hypatia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
New Models

This essay discusses the implications of Irigaray's readings of the Antigone in the construction of a feminist ethics. By focusing on the gaps and intersections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian phenomenology as formulative of Irigaray's eventual call for an ethics of sexual difference, 1 emphasize the inevitability of rethinking the functions of historicity, femininity, and maternity in the formation of new models of intersubjectivity.

scholarly journals “Difference” as Mode of Resistance in Jane Austen’s Emma

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (I) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Heterosexual Identity

This paper explores “difference” as a locus for changing power relations in Jane Austen’s major novel Emma. While Austen’s preoccupation with courtships has been under scholarly investigations, it has not been properly considered as a tool of resistance: one that strives to displace power from physical force to a discursive one. This displacement is a strategic struggle of middle-class ascendency over aristocracy in a changing English milieu. The study examines courtships within two Foucauldian frameworks. The first one is disciplinary that aims to regulate sexual practices like panopticon---an apparatus of power, producing normative/heterosexual identity through surveillance. Embedded in the first is the second approach that examines the very assumptions of the panoptic discourse through ‘micro techniques of power’. It is the ability of her characters (especially the female) to reject not only undesirable sexual advances but desirable proposals as well that transform their otherwise passive and docile bodies into subjects to be reckoned with. In doing so, Austen does transform signs of class and rank into forms of expression as a pre-requisite for any exchange. This paper is an attempt to look into the power dynamics in the novel from a different angle---the angle of difference impacted by power/knowledge and discourse. Two sites of contestation are analyzed: the first played between Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightly, and the second between Mrs. Elton and Jane Fairfax. This transformation can explicitly be viewed in her novel Emma. Foucauldian insights are certainly innovative to a well-read Austen.

Interplay of Power Relations in Neeharika’s Yogmaya: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Tirtha Raj Niraula
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Voice

This article aims at exploring how Neelam Karki Niharika‘s Yogmaya presents the complex web of power relations that comprise domination, submission, and resistance. It mainly draw son Michel Foucault‘s idea that power is pervasive, not just oppressive but productive as well. Viewed from the Foucauldian notion of power as a theoretical framework, the study reveals the interplay of dominant and counter discourses in propagating knowledge and truth that are constructed and reconstructed. The novel is treated as a site of struggle where the state power along with the discourses of religion, patriarchy, and gender roles prominently operate so as to suppress the voice of the dissent. Yogmaya, a rural woman of the humble background, continuously resists both verbally and physically against various forms of power in the face of threats. She exercises her power in the same way as those who traditionally believe they possess it. In this connection, the focus lies on the protagonist‘s persistent attempts of resistance through the bold interrogation of the hegemonizing discourses and regimes of truth. As the text under study is written in Nepali, I use transliteration and free translation in order to cite the lines for analysis.

The Novel and the Guillotine; or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir

PMLA ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brooks
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Father Figure ◽  
Rouge Et Le Noir ◽  
Fathers And Sons

The end of Le Rouge et le noir constitutes a chronic critical scandal, raising a host of problems concerning the novel's plot and its legitimating authority that may be approached through the question of paternity in the career of Julien Sorel. Paternity becomes a key issue in a novel structured by a conflict between legitimacy and usurpation, a conflict that has political, historical, and narratological implications. Politics versus manners, the hypothesis of Julien's illegitimate noble birth versus his career of monstrous usurpation, the role of the narrator as a father figure who subverts paternalistic control–these and related questions may provide a context for reading the end of the novel, for determining the relation of what Julien calls his novel to Stendhal's, and for understanding the uses of the guillotine.

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