Traces of the Deleuzian nomad inHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Soudeh Oladi (0000-0002-5177-1281, Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, corresponding author), John Portelli (Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), John P Portelli (University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665-678 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2017.1296358 |
| OpenAlex | W2725948956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
In a Deleuzian-inspired deconstruction of identity, home, and subjectivity, the authors explore the cultivation of the self in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Beneath the struggle for subjectivity and identity, there exists a discourse of survival that creates an image of the immigrant as the wandering and uncertain citizen. In this context, traces of the Deleuzian nomad are identified and explored in Lalami’s characters. These individuals embody qualities attributed to nomads by continuously disrupting different manifestations of fixity in their lives through various forms of resistance. For the characters in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, possibilities for connection are visible in their struggle to disrupt the perception of a fixed identity. The tapestry of identities created reveals a nomadic potential that interrupts linear notions of being. The consequent creative force enables identities to be negotiated in an in-between space that is decentred and thrives in the realm of unpredictability
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Identity (music · Political science · Realm · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture
The Figure of the Migrant
The Deleuze Connections
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Nomadic subjects
The Rise of the Survival Discourse in an Era of Therapisation and Neoliberalism
The dislocation of ‘home’ in the writings of Laila Lalami
Violence at the Borders
Anti-Oedipus
A thousand plateaus
The Postidentitarian Predicament in the Footnotes of A Thousand Plateaus
Political power beyond the State
The deterritorialised self in Laila Lalami'sHope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Illegal' crossing, historical memory and postcolonial agency in Laila Lalami'sHope and other dangerous pursuits
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |