Literature as activism: interrogating the 21st century demise of the Arendtian political public sphere
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01/01/2013
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This article explores Don DeLillo's literary activism through Arendtian perspectives to investigate what the demise of literature's relevance, specifically in a political context, may mean in the current era of an increasingly complex and conflicting 'web of human relationships'. In that it is accepted that narrative has a particular ability to reveal insights as prelinguistic elements that are distinct from all we are able to access through our limited human perceptions, it remarks the Lacanian paradox that if <i>being</i> is in excess of language, then language is the medium by which this is accessed in the world. For DeLillo, writers may be under threat in a dynamic but destabilizing era, their art superceded by technology and fundamentalist terrorism, however, as suggested in <i>Mao II,</i> this renders the writer all the more necessary. It is at the point at which the writer has nothing to say or is under duress to say noting, that a human crisis is reached. I ask, do current forms of political pressure to censure literature constitute a further diminishing of the Arendtian political public domain in which speech as action has primacy? |
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eng |
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UniversityPublications.net |
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http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30060465/spark-literatureasactivism-2013.pdf http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30060465/spark-literatureasactivism-evid-2013.pdf http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30060465/spark-literatureasactivism-post-2013.pdf http://universitypublications.net/hssr/0204/html/T3N297.xml |
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2013, UniversityPublications.net |
Palavras-Chave | #literature #politics #globalisation #political violence |
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Journal Article |