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001-es BibID:	BIBFORM069897
Első szerző:	Ureczky Eszter (irodalmár, angol irodalom)
Cím:	Bodies of Power - Arne De Boever, Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel / Ureczky Eszter
Dátum:	2015
ISSN:	1218-7364
Megjegyzések:	Biopolitics has recently become the new buzzword of cultural studies and the humanities in general, which can be regarded as a truly cross-fertilizing tendency for the arts and sciences, initiating mutually revealing dialogues about the cultural meanings of power structures and the body. It is important to emphasize, however, that the idea of the body does not exclusively imply the living human body here, but the animal body, the cyborg body and the dead body, as well. Beside this broad notion of the body as the ultimate site of political and ideological control, biopolitics is also characterized by a markedly transdisciplinary stance due to its inherent terminological and discursive connections to bioethics, bioart, gender studies, medical ethics, medical sociology, the medical humanities in general or biopower?to use the lesser known Foucauldian term. In the wake of Michel Foucault's strangely evasive lectures on governmentality and disciplinary power in the 1970s (now published as a separate volume entitled The Birth of Biopolitics; Picador, 2010), as well as such thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others have marked out the territory of a new discourse on an age-old problem: embodiment and power. Despite its disturbingly protean academic background, the basic preoccupations of the field still have an up-to-date common denominator, insofar as it examines the ways various forms of power and knowledge contribute to creating, managing, manipulating, pleasing and destroying bodies and agency by means of surveillance or epistemological and representational violence. The major danger of the relatively swift rise of biopolitics as a critical discourse can be its being emptied out as an all-pervasive and thus groundless way of interpreting historical and contemporary somatic dilemmas. Still, within literary and film studies the application of biopolitical readings has been clearly necessitated by the sheer number of artistic works devoted to biopolitical and bioethical questions, and Arne De Boever's book can thus be regarded as a timely and insightful example of this interpretive approach. Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel / London, Oxford, et al. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. -
Tárgyszavak:	Bölcsészettudományok Irodalom- és kultúratudományok recenzió, könyvismertetés folyóiratcikk medical humanities biopolitics fictions novels illness disease
Megjelenés:	Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. - 21 : 1 (2015), p. 226-231. -
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