A Phenomenology of Excorporation, Bodily Alienation, and Resistance
Rethinking Sexed and Racialized Embodiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8098749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Zeiler (0000-0002-2862-3731, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01305.x |
| OpenAlex | W1985961203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 8 |
The article examines how some culturally shared and corporeally enacted beliefs and norms about sexed and racialized embodiment can form embodied agency, and this with the aid of the concepts of incorporation and excorporation. It discusses how the phenomenological concept of excorporation can help us examine painful experiences of how one's lived body breaks in the encounter with others. The article also examines how a continuous excorporation can result in bodily alienation, and what embodied resistance can mean when one has undergone or undergoes excorporation. Elaborating on the work of, among others, Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Drew Leder, and Sarah Ahmed, I discuss incorporation and excorporation of beliefs and norms regarding sexual difference, such as beliefs and norms regarding female and male embodiment, through a reading of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel Middlesex . I also suggest that it is useful to understand the postcolonial scholar Frantz Fanon's narrative of how he could not but attend to his own skin color while living in France in the 1940s and 1950s, in terms of excorporation. Whereas these are different narratives in many ways, I regard them as helpful for clarifying what excorporation implies and what analytic work this concept can enable
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Alienation · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Lived experience · Narrative · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |