Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje

Lesley Higgins; Marie-Christine Leps

Published by Academic Studies Press 2022

Heterotopic World Fiction

Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps

In the series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699966

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About this book

This book demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political—biopoetic—strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

Author / Editor information

Lesley Higgins, Professor of English at York University, specializes in late Victorian and modernist studies. Author of The Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics, she has also edited three volumes of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s prose. Research interests include world literature, feminist studies of modernism, textual studies, and poetry.

Marie-Christine Leps, Associate Professor of English at York University, is founding coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in World Literature. Author of Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance, she specializes in literary and cultural theory, world literature, and discourse analysis. Her current project focuses on world fictions of friendship.

Reviews

“Heterotopic World Fiction, an exposé of the migratoriness that lies at the heart of transnational literature, makes a substantial and necessary contribution to the broadening field of world literature. Intellectually agile and marvelously navigable, this book shifts its locations of inquiry from Toronto to Sri Lanka, from ships to tunnels, from metropolitan London in the twentieth century to rural France in the nineteenth century. Higgins and Leps draw upon a rich and diverse corpus of memoirs, polemical treatises, and fiction to demonstrate the persistence of biopolitical and biopoetical ethics in literature. Scholars working in the area of human rights, activism, and biopolitics will turn to Heterotopic World Fiction for its engagement with questions of risk, danger, and truth-telling in the face of oppression.”

– Allan Hepburn, McGill University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: Heterotopic World Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II: Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
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Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Biopoetics; Biopolitics; Cultural studies; Feminism; Foucault; Governmentality; Heterotopia; Ondaatje; Woolf; World Literature

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9781644699966