Changing landscapes in the new millennium
On nomadic intellectualism, terrorism, horror and some related issues∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fatima Festic (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 21-30 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564710108530272 |
| OpenAlex | W1981651792 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Within the frame of two contemporary poles of reading and interpreting literature ‐ the postmodernist engage, reinscription of the “neutral” narratives through social, political, psychoanalytic thought and the nineties’ plea for “purer thought” and the critique of cultural relativism and infinite particularization and differences of voices ‐ this text explores some new conceptual tools for literary studies, i.e. nomadic subject and nomadic intellectual. It will focus on the feminist “taking over” the terms from the poststructuralist male “master‐minders”, on the gendered nomadic condition, the unavoidable split between the symbolic and the material function in the subject, the horror that gapes open in the nomadic figuration of the postmodern subjectivity and the madness of human acts that in terrorism questions the very premises of (acting through) critical theory and of performativity that we have cherished as our most precious concept. Referring to the September 11 attack, the transference of knowledge of such a shifting subject in the academic and public environments and the capacity of engendering narrative with each shift is addressed and related to revised concepts of good and evil, sameness and difference in the contemporary theory
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Intellectualism · Literature · Narrative · Performativity · Plea · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Subjectivity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |