Ivan Stacy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Stacy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stacy |
| SIGNATURE | STACY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9812-4196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Threads of Complicity
Review of: Stephanie Bird, Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and Continuities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 288 pp. (hardcover). GBP 85.00. ISBN 978-1-3504-2409-8
Testimony and Impure Subjects
This article begins by describing how puristic accounts of testimony tend to connect witnessing with the stable and morally-elevated subject position of victimhood. It argues that Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) offers a significant challenge to these accounts through its use of a complicit narrator, calling into question the connection between the subject position of the witness and any assumption of moral purity. The first part of th…
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue on Complicit Testimonies
Dakinis and femmes fatales
This article explores the association of fear and sexuality in the Buddhist figure of the dakini in two recent films by Bhutanese filmmakers, Dechen Roder’s Honeygiver among the Dogs (2016) and Khyentse Norbu’s Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019). Both films consciously connect the Buddhist figure of the dakini, traditional depictions of which are characterized by overt sexuality, with that of the femme fatale. In doing so, they …
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
This article argues that in Bleeding Edge , Pynchon moves from an oppositional schema in which the world is divided into “elect” and “preterite” populations towards one that is concerned with implication and complicity. The article uses Michael Rothberg's The Implicated Subject (2019) as the basis for analysis, and notably his argument that to be implicated in wrongdoing often involves a kind of structural blindness towards suffering elsewhere. I…
The Boatman’s Tale
Ishiguro abandoned his familiar mode of unreliable, first-person narration in The Buried Giant. This article argues that this formal shift is the culmination of an increasing tendency to deny consolation to his protagonists, a move that represents an increasingly critical and reflective stance towards cosmopolitan values. The article begins by drawing on Stoic thought to outline the relationship between consolation and cosmopolitanism, and by pos…
Masked Violence
This article examines the carnivalesque in two recent Bhutanese films, Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2016, dir. Khyentse Norbu) and The Red Phallus (2018, dir. Tashi Gyeltshen). Bhutanese Buddhist rituals contain a number of elements that bear striking parallels with Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the carnivalesque, most notably in the use of masks and in the presence of jester figures known as atsaras . However, important differences …
Looking out into the fog
Kazuo Ishiguro used his 2017 Nobel lecture to suggest that liberal democracies have failed to take advantage of the opportunities presented in the late twentieth century, and a new sense of anxiety is evident in The Buried Giant. While Ishiguro's early novels celebrated the freedom of expression available to those living in democratic societies, The Buried Giant explores the tensions between narrative and historical responsibility, and suggests t…
Commonplace witnessing
What sort of novel is The Wire? Voice, dialogue and protest
This article responds to the numerous comparisons between The Wire and realist or naturalist novels. It argues that The Wire’s mimetic qualities depict many of the problems facing Baltimore and, by extension, neo-liberal America. However, it argues that the show does not just articulate complaints, but also proposes solutions, and that these solutions can be identified through two other concepts associated with the novel: polyphony and minor lite…
David Simon’s representation of America part one
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What sort of novel is The Wire? Voice, dialogue and protest
This article responds to the numerous comparisons between The Wire and realist or naturalist novels. It argues that The Wire’s mimetic qualities depict many of the problems facing Baltimore and, by extension, neo-liberal America. However, it argues that the show does not just articulate complaints, but also proposes solutions, and that these solutions can be identified through two other concepts associated with the novel: polyphony and minor lite…
David Simon’s representation of America part one
Commonplace witnessing
Masked Violence
This article examines the carnivalesque in two recent Bhutanese films, Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2016, dir. Khyentse Norbu) and The Red Phallus (2018, dir. Tashi Gyeltshen). Bhutanese Buddhist rituals contain a number of elements that bear striking parallels with Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the carnivalesque, most notably in the use of masks and in the presence of jester figures known as atsaras . However, important differences …
Looking out into the fog
Kazuo Ishiguro used his 2017 Nobel lecture to suggest that liberal democracies have failed to take advantage of the opportunities presented in the late twentieth century, and a new sense of anxiety is evident in The Buried Giant. While Ishiguro's early novels celebrated the freedom of expression available to those living in democratic societies, The Buried Giant explores the tensions between narrative and historical responsibility, and suggests t…
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
This article argues that in Bleeding Edge , Pynchon moves from an oppositional schema in which the world is divided into “elect” and “preterite” populations towards one that is concerned with implication and complicity. The article uses Michael Rothberg's The Implicated Subject (2019) as the basis for analysis, and notably his argument that to be implicated in wrongdoing often involves a kind of structural blindness towards suffering elsewhere. I…
The Boatman’s Tale
Ishiguro abandoned his familiar mode of unreliable, first-person narration in The Buried Giant. This article argues that this formal shift is the culmination of an increasing tendency to deny consolation to his protagonists, a move that represents an increasingly critical and reflective stance towards cosmopolitan values. The article begins by drawing on Stoic thought to outline the relationship between consolation and cosmopolitanism, and by pos…
Threads of Complicity
Review of: Stephanie Bird, Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and Continuities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 288 pp. (hardcover). GBP 85.00. ISBN 978-1-3504-2409-8
Testimony and Impure Subjects
This article begins by describing how puristic accounts of testimony tend to connect witnessing with the stable and morally-elevated subject position of victimhood. It argues that Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) offers a significant challenge to these accounts through its use of a complicit narrator, calling into question the connection between the subject position of the witness and any assumption of moral purity. The first part of th…
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue on Complicit Testimonies
Dakinis and femmes fatales
This article explores the association of fear and sexuality in the Buddhist figure of the dakini in two recent films by Bhutanese filmmakers, Dechen Roder’s Honeygiver among the Dogs (2016) and Khyentse Norbu’s Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019). Both films consciously connect the Buddhist figure of the dakini, traditional depictions of which are characterized by overt sexuality, with that of the femme fatale. In doing so, they …
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