Secular Blasphemy

Utter(ed) Transgressions Against Names and Fathers in the Postmodern Era

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2385263
AutoresJames Haywood Rolling (0000-0002-0050-1935, Syracuse University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen14
Número6
Páginas926-948
Fecha de publicación2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800408318319
OpenAlexW2131399230
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas10

Unnaming the axiomatic constructs of a named identity-that which is thought to be fitting within a given regime of definition-becomes then an act of secular blasphemy, a performance of decanonizing translation that discursively relocates and reinscribes communicated meaning from power, prefix, and prefigurement to perpetual movement. Departing from Homi Bhabha's description of blasphemy as a transgressive act, this article blasphemes the certainty of definition in research writing, illuminating the performance of blasphemy as a source of new social names and the migration of norms and meaning. This article is the third in a trilogy of research forays exploring the intersection of autoethnography, critical race theory, and performance studies. This new research, written to follow up Rolling (2004a, 2004b), is a continuation of the author's effort to establish the efficacy of a poststructural and poetic aesthetic in qualitative research writing

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Blasphemy · Epistemology · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics