Subjects barbarian, monstrous, and wild : encounters in the arts and contemporary politics /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill Rodopi,
2017
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| Series: | Thamyris intersecting ;
no. 32. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild; Setting the Terms; Outline of Contents; Works Cited; Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions inContemporary Politics and Culture; Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics; Abstract; Barbarian Invasions: An Enlightenment Trope; Barbarians and the Discourse of Culturalization Since 1989; Barbarian, Savage, Monster: The War on Terror as a War of Words
- Barbarism in Post-Truth Politics: Trump the BarbarianSystemic Barbarians and Linguistic Disobedience; Works Cited; The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares; Abstract; A Persistent and Politicized Story; Narrative as Schemata; Arcand's Invasions; Conclusions and Complications; Coda: Art, Critique, and the Current Moment; Works Cited; From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates-An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly; Abstract; We Gon' Be Alright; Black As the Moon; Hood Politics; Works Cited
- Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation ConundrumAbstract; The 13th Istanbul Biennale; The Barbarian Language of Protest; Conclusion; Works Cited; Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished:Canons Recast in Literature and Film; Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary Canon; Abstract; The Establishment of the Barbarian in the Hellenic World and Greek Tragedy; The Figuration of the Wild Man in Medieval Romances
- The Renaissance and the Emergence of the CannibalRewriting the Occidental Literary Canon: Shakespeare and Césaire's Tempests; Works Cited; Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The Revenant; Abstract; The Logic of Coloniality and Its Undoing; Decolonial Moments; The Savage's Haunting; To Live with Ghosts; Works Cited; Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Abstract; Formal Issues: The Relationship Between Genius and Monstrosity; Ontological Difficulties and Posthuman Perspectives; Works Cited
- The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love DickAbstract; Monsters and Artists; The Monster as a Stigma: Dept. of Speculation and The Blazing World; The Monster that Liberates: I Love Dick; Conclusion; Works Cited; Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians, Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust; Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag Race; Abstract; Glamazon; Disidentifications and Amazonian Kinship; Limitations of the Body; Rituals and Formalization; Rewriting Herstory; Works Cited
