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035 _a(OCoLC)899261158
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aLee, Sue-Im,
_d1969-
245 1 2 _aA Body of Individuals :
_bThe Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction /
_cSue-Im Lee.
264 1 _aColumbus :
_bOhio State University Press,
_c2009.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2015
264 4 _c©2009.
300 _a1 online resource (196 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aWhat ails the individual : community cure in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Paradise -- "We are not the world" : global community, universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Unlike any other : shoring up the human community in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the dark -- Motion in stasis : impossible community in fictions of Lydia Davis and Lynne Tillman -- Community as multi-party game : private language in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 1 _a"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 fiction's 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, Francois 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 fiction's 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."--Jacket.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 6 _aRoman americain
_y20e siecle
_xHistoire et critique.
650 6 _aCommunaute dans la litterature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPoststrukturalismus
_2gnd
650 7 _aGemeinschaft
_gMotiv
_2gnd
650 7 _aGesellschaft
_gMotiv
_2gnd
650 7 _aLiteratur
_2gnd
650 7 _aCommunities in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01430093
650 7 _aAmerican fiction.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00807048
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCommunities in literature.
651 7 _aUSA.
_2swd
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/27799/
945 _aProject MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement III
945 _aProject MUSE - Archive Literature Supplement III
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