Simone Drichel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Drichel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Drichel |
| SIGNATURE | DRICHEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5028-8741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Maurice Gee's 'anti-Cartesian meditations: Narcissism and relational trauma in Plumb
In playfully positioning Descartes – recast as ‘Des Cartes’ – as ‘a cousin of Les Miserables’ in his best-known novel Plumb (1978), New Zealand writer Maurice Gee demonstrates that what lurks beneath Western culture’s Cartesian heritage is a disavowed story of pain and misery. Reading the Cartesian cogito’s withdrawal from the world as a narcissistic defence response to relational trauma, this article considers the relational damage that such a w…
Relationality
The Most Perfectly Autonomous Man: Relational Subjectivity and the Crisis of Connection
the most perfectly autonomous man is [...] the most perfectly isolated. The perverse quality of this implicit ideal is, I trust, obvious. This vision of the autonomous individual as one securely
The Disaster of Colonial Narcissism
In The Writing of the Disaster, Maurice Blanchot includes a brief discussion of the Narcissus myth, implicitly inviting us to ask, as Claire Nouvet notes, "what is 'disastrous' in Narcissus's story." Translating this question into a postcolonial context, this essay argues that what is "disastrous" in colonial narcissism is the profound disturbance the story reveals in Narcissus's capacity to relate to others: a disturbance which imprisons Narciss…
Cartesian Narcissism
Drawing on D. W. Winnicott’s work, this essay recasts our common conception of the Cartesian cogito—the thinking ego—as the secure foundation for human knowledge, seeing in it less the overcoming of dependency on the senses, preconceived opinions, and authority than a retreat from relationality into a solitary rationality designed to protect against emotional trauma. In this light, the ongoing attachment to Cartesian subjectivity appears as a def…
Introduction: Reframing Vulnerability: “so obviously the problem…”
IntroductionReframing Vulnerability: "so obviously the problem..."? Simone Drichel (bio) I'm prepared for everything, I'm armed against everything, nothing will hurt me anymore. I've become invulnerable. Like Siegfried, I have bathed in dragon's blood, and no linden leaf has left a single spot of me unprotected. I'm inside this skin for the duration. I will die inside my invulnerable shell [...]. —Christoph Hein, The Distant Lover "so obviously t…
"Towards a "radical acceptance of vulnerability: Postcolonialism and Deconstruction
Towards a “radical acceptance of vulnerability”:Postcolonialism and Deconstruction Simone Drichel (bio) The possibility for the home to open to the Other is as essential to the essence of the home as closed doors and windows. —Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity The “virus of deconstruction” Reflecting on Jacques Derrida’s lasting influence on a range of intellectual, cultural, social, and political practices, Derek Attridge opens his 2005 es…
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame
Janet Frame’s work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame’s work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks. Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studi…
Regarding the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm
To observe that postcolonial studies as a field appears to be plagued by a guilty conscience—a persistent anxiety over its potential complicity with colonialism—is to state the obvious. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy, this essay exploits and extends this observation to argue that this guilty conscience reveals a largely overlooked ethical dimension in a field that derives its raison d'être from political, not ethical, concerns. Focusing…
The time of hybridity
Homi Bhabha's idea of hybridity is one of postcolonialism's most keenly debated — and most widely misunderstood — concepts. My article provides some elucidation in the increasingly reductive debates over hybridity in postcolonial studies, suggesting that what is commonly overlooked in these debates is hybridity's complex relationship to temporality. I suggest that this relationship is not given the credit it deserves often enough, resulting in sk…
How Newness (Not) Comes into the World: Eva Rask Knudsen’s *The Circle and the Spiral
A review of The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen, which critiques postcolonial theory
The time of hybridity
Homi Bhabha's idea of hybridity is one of postcolonialism's most keenly debated — and most widely misunderstood — concepts. My article provides some elucidation in the increasingly reductive debates over hybridity in postcolonial studies, suggesting that what is commonly overlooked in these debates is hybridity's complex relationship to temporality. I suggest that this relationship is not given the credit it deserves often enough, resulting in sk…
Introduction: Reframing Vulnerability: “so obviously the problem…”
IntroductionReframing Vulnerability: "so obviously the problem..."? Simone Drichel (bio) I'm prepared for everything, I'm armed against everything, nothing will hurt me anymore. I've become invulnerable. Like Siegfried, I have bathed in dragon's blood, and no linden leaf has left a single spot of me unprotected. I'm inside this skin for the duration. I will die inside my invulnerable shell [...]. —Christoph Hein, The Distant Lover "so obviously t…
Relationality
"Towards a "radical acceptance of vulnerability: Postcolonialism and Deconstruction
Towards a “radical acceptance of vulnerability”:Postcolonialism and Deconstruction Simone Drichel (bio) The possibility for the home to open to the Other is as essential to the essence of the home as closed doors and windows. —Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity The “virus of deconstruction” Reflecting on Jacques Derrida’s lasting influence on a range of intellectual, cultural, social, and political practices, Derek Attridge opens his 2005 es…
The Disaster of Colonial Narcissism
In The Writing of the Disaster, Maurice Blanchot includes a brief discussion of the Narcissus myth, implicitly inviting us to ask, as Claire Nouvet notes, "what is 'disastrous' in Narcissus's story." Translating this question into a postcolonial context, this essay argues that what is "disastrous" in colonial narcissism is the profound disturbance the story reveals in Narcissus's capacity to relate to others: a disturbance which imprisons Narciss…
How Newness (Not) Comes into the World: Eva Rask Knudsen’s *The Circle and the Spiral
A review of The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen, which critiques postcolonial theory
Regarding the Other: Postcolonial Violations and Ethical Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm
To observe that postcolonial studies as a field appears to be plagued by a guilty conscience—a persistent anxiety over its potential complicity with colonialism—is to state the obvious. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy, this essay exploits and extends this observation to argue that this guilty conscience reveals a largely overlooked ethical dimension in a field that derives its raison d'être from political, not ethical, concerns. Focusing…
The time of hybridity
Homi Bhabha's idea of hybridity is one of postcolonialism's most keenly debated — and most widely misunderstood — concepts. My article provides some elucidation in the increasingly reductive debates over hybridity in postcolonial studies, suggesting that what is commonly overlooked in these debates is hybridity's complex relationship to temporality. I suggest that this relationship is not given the credit it deserves often enough, resulting in sk…
Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame
Janet Frame’s work is notorious for the demands it makes on reader and critic. This collection of nine new essays by international Frame specialists draws on a range of critical frameworks to explore fresh ways of looking at Frame’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography. At the same time, the essays plug into the energy of Frame’s work to challenge our thinking within and beyond these frameworks. Frameworks offers a unique perspective on Frame studi…
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader
Introduction: Reframing Vulnerability: “so obviously the problem…”
IntroductionReframing Vulnerability: "so obviously the problem..."? Simone Drichel (bio) I'm prepared for everything, I'm armed against everything, nothing will hurt me anymore. I've become invulnerable. Like Siegfried, I have bathed in dragon's blood, and no linden leaf has left a single spot of me unprotected. I'm inside this skin for the duration. I will die inside my invulnerable shell [...]. —Christoph Hein, The Distant Lover "so obviously t…
"Towards a "radical acceptance of vulnerability: Postcolonialism and Deconstruction
Towards a “radical acceptance of vulnerability”:Postcolonialism and Deconstruction Simone Drichel (bio) The possibility for the home to open to the Other is as essential to the essence of the home as closed doors and windows. —Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity The “virus of deconstruction” Reflecting on Jacques Derrida’s lasting influence on a range of intellectual, cultural, social, and political practices, Derek Attridge opens his 2005 es…
Cartesian Narcissism
Drawing on D. W. Winnicott’s work, this essay recasts our common conception of the Cartesian cogito—the thinking ego—as the secure foundation for human knowledge, seeing in it less the overcoming of dependency on the senses, preconceived opinions, and authority than a retreat from relationality into a solitary rationality designed to protect against emotional trauma. In this light, the ongoing attachment to Cartesian subjectivity appears as a def…
The Disaster of Colonial Narcissism
In The Writing of the Disaster, Maurice Blanchot includes a brief discussion of the Narcissus myth, implicitly inviting us to ask, as Claire Nouvet notes, "what is 'disastrous' in Narcissus's story." Translating this question into a postcolonial context, this essay argues that what is "disastrous" in colonial narcissism is the profound disturbance the story reveals in Narcissus's capacity to relate to others: a disturbance which imprisons Narciss…
Relationality
The Most Perfectly Autonomous Man: Relational Subjectivity and the Crisis of Connection
the most perfectly autonomous man is [...] the most perfectly isolated. The perverse quality of this implicit ideal is, I trust, obvious. This vision of the autonomous individual as one securely
Maurice Gee's 'anti-Cartesian meditations: Narcissism and relational trauma in Plumb
In playfully positioning Descartes – recast as ‘Des Cartes’ – as ‘a cousin of Les Miserables’ in his best-known novel Plumb (1978), New Zealand writer Maurice Gee demonstrates that what lurks beneath Western culture’s Cartesian heritage is a disavowed story of pain and misery. Reading the Cartesian cogito’s withdrawal from the world as a narcissistic defence response to relational trauma, this article considers the relational damage that such a w…
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