Approriate(d) Discourse
Plagiarism and Decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4982944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marilyn Randall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 525 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/469202 |
| OpenAlex | W2327381944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
porary aesthetic double bind in which the theoretical impossibility of originality confronts a definition of art which continues to depend on the perception of a certain originality. The preference for originality, evident in the discourse both of consecration and of censure, can be seen as a strategy of institutional self-validation which projects the annihilation of difference in the guise of protecting individuality. From this perspective, the political context of decolonization, in which the struggle for a national identity against a dominant and oppressive force is often expressed in cultural production, can furnish a paradigm for the relationship between cultural forms of power and the repression of deviance. At the source of this struggle is a complex of notions such as authorship, propriety, and individuality which terminate in a definition of identity that has become more and more problematic. The progressive dissolution of the centered, unified subject throughout the twentieth century has led to a postmodern revolution: the romantic hegemony of the individual originator has been displaced by the hegemony of the linguistic unconscious which betrays the subject as being essentially divided against itself. The loss of the authority of the subject has, in turn, produced a crisis of the notion of authorship and consequently of authenticity and originality in aesthetics. According to Harold Bloom: We shy away from the overt criterion of originality, and we have learned to ask for it under different and more nuanced names
Art · Decolonization · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Styl(us)
Plagiarism and the Originality of National Literature
(Dis)Avowals of Tradition
Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
Sampling Globalization in Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville
The Enframing of Code
Calixthe Beyala
On tokens and tokenisation, a conjunctural approach to thinking GenAI in the Humanities classroom
Prose and Cons
Yambo Ouologuem's struggle for recognition in the field of "African" literature in French
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |