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Genealogy and Literature This page intentionally left blank Genealogy and Literature Lee Quinby, editor University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 1995 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota "The Functions of Literature," translation by Alan Sheridan, copyright 1988 Routledge Chapman and Hall, Inc., in Michel Foucault, Politics Philosophy Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Reprinted with permission of Editions Gallimard and the estate of Michel Foucault. English translation reprinted here by arrangement with Routledge. "Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis," by Simon During, was originally published in Simon During, Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), 186-207. Reprinted with permission. "The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo," by Jose David Saldivar, was originally published in Jose David Saldivar, The Dialectics of Our America (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), 87-104. Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Genealogy and literature / Lee Quinby, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8166-2560-3 (he). — ISBN 0-8166-2561-1 (pbk.) 1. Social structure in literature. 2. Canon (Literature) I. Quinby, Lee, 1946- PN56.S564G46 1995 809—dc20 95-739 The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. For my sons, Michael Miller and Paul Miller This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature, Lee Quinby xi Part I: To Know What Literature Is 1. The Functions of Literature, Michel Foucault 3 2. Universalizing Marginality: How Europe Became Deaf in the Eighteenth Century, Lennard J. Davis 9 3. Monstrous Body, Tortured Soul: Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses, Ellen J. Goldner 28 4. Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: The Case of Herman Melville Malini Johar Schueller 48 Part II: A Language Poised against Death 5. Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis Simon During 71 6. Cannibalizing the Humanist Subject: A Genealogy of Prospero Tom Hayes 96 7. Grounds for Decolonization: Arguedas's Foxes Claudette Kemper Columbus 116 8. Genealogical Determinism in Achebe's Things Fall Apart Imafedia Okhamafe 13 134 vii iii Contents Part III: Seeking the Limits of the Possible 9. Sex Matters: Genealogical Inquiries, Pedagogical Implications Lee Quinby 157 10. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, José David Saldivar 175 11. Body/Talk: Mishima, Masturbation, and Self-Performativity Donald H. Mengay 193 12. "Dreadful Dioramas": Guibert's Countermemories Kate Mehuron 211 Contributors 225 Index 229 Acknowledgments I am grateful to the contributors to this collection: their generosity of spirit and remarkable punctuality deserve special notice. I also wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their encouraging, helpful recommendations and Laura Westlund for her skillful copyediting. Financial assistance from Hobart and William Smith Colleges helped to allow me to draw on the good services of John D'Agata and Elizabeth Hoskins and to cover other expenses incurred in the process of gathering necessary materials. ix
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