TY - BOOK AU - Higgins,Lesley AU - Leps,Marie-Christine TI - Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje T2 - Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History SN - 9781644699966 AV - PN56.B55 H54 2022 U1 - 809/.04 23/eng/20220816 PY - 2022///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Biopolitics in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature KW - bisacsh KW - Biopoetics KW - Biopolitics KW - Cultural studies KW - Feminism KW - Foucault KW - Governmentality KW - Heterotopia KW - Ondaatje KW - Woolf KW - World Literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; List of Figures --; Introduction: Heterotopic World Fiction --; Part I: Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual --; Part II: Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly Self --; Figures --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644699966?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644699966 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644699966/original ER -