Rey Chow

Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352167
• ISBN-10: 0822352168
• Artikelnr.: 34445052

Autorenporträt

Rey Chow

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical
Practice 13
2. On Captivation: A Remainder of the "Indistinction of Art and Nonart"
(written with Julian Rohrhuber) 31
3. Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She 59
4. Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood 81
5. "I insist on the Christian dimension": On Foregiveness . . . and the
Outside of the Human 107
6. American Studies in Japan, Japan in American Studies: Challenges of the
Heterolingual Address 133
7. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze's Method 151
8. Framing the Original: Toward a New Visibility of the Orient 169
Postscript. Intimations from a Scene of Capture 183
Index 187