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States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald de Dr. Arne De Boever

States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

Autor Dr. Arne De Boever
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 mai 2012
In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441125972
ISBN-10: 1441125973
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Combines literary criticism and political theory with the novel concept of the aesthetic decision.

Notă biografică

Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA.

Cuprins

DedicationAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Decision TimeA. September 11 and the Aesthetic DecisionB. The ChaptersC. Schmitt, Hobbes, Benjamin, Burnham Chapter One: States of Exception in Yann Martel's Life of PiA. IntroductionB. Political State of ExceptionC. Psychic State of ExceptionD. Theological State of ExceptionE. The Politics of AllegoryChapter Two: Autobiography and Human Rights in Jeffrey Eugenides' MiddlesexA. A Failure of ReadingB. Reading Human RightsC. The Political Life of SexD. Sex in TheoryE/ Autobiography and MessianismChapter Three: Literary Economies in J.M. Coetzee's DisgraceA. Disgrace, Once MoreB. The Circular Economy of ViolenceC. Reading IncestD. Lucy's CountE. Lucy as "the part of those who have no part"F. From Animals to Aesthetic EconomyChapter Four: Architectures of Exception in W.G. Sebald's AusterlitzA. Architecture, Trauma, and the CampsB. Reading FortificationsC. The Cabinet of WonderD. Architectures of the UncannyE. Moving TestimonyF. The Novel in Motion; or: The Politics of Austerlitz's AestheticConclusion: From Exception to Care A. Crisis and PlayB. Biopolitics, the Novel, and CareBibliographic ReferencesIndex

Recenzii

"Arne De Boever offers a strikingly consistent and nuanced analysis of four important contemporary novels. His interdisciplinary theoretical approach, which combines present-day political theory with in-depth literary criticism, generates innovative insights. This highly readable book provides convincing and often fascinating interpretations that will be of value to students and scholars of literature as well as critical/political theory." -- Hilde Staels, Associate Professor of English Literature / Literary Theory, University of Leuven, Belgium
"One of the most inventive readers of fiction now writing, Arne De Boever discovers in the contemporary novel's dealings with trauma-that which seems too big for ethics-just what the post-9/11 world has been looking for: a wisdom literature that teaches decision-making under conditions of undecidability, when the ordinary ethical rules do not apply.  The phrase 'state of exception' has been much used of late, but De Boever's treatment manages to be itself a beautiful exception." -Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
"With the theoretically informed study of literature being forced more and more in to the margins of literary studies, Arne De Boever's book stands out for its commitment to a rigorous, nuanced and convincing theoretical methodology for interrogating the complex relationships between the aesthetic and political in contemporary literature and culture. The readings of these texts - all focused around the ethics of the aesthetic 'decision' - work to unpick some of our most common assumptions about the political form of the novel in the twenty-first century, making it both essential and challenging reading." -Alex Murray, Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK