Heterotopic World Fiction : : Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje / / Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Higgins, Lesley,; Leps, Marie-Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; List of Figures --; Introduction: Heterotopic World Fiction --; Part I: Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual --; Part II: Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly Self --; Figures --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644699966; 9783110767414; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644699966?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counter-development of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Our work defines and explores a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.