Revolution in Poetic Language Fifty Years Later: New Directions in Kristeva Studies (Suny Gender Theory)

Contents Editor’s Acknowledgments Introduction: Revolutionary Practice and the Subject-in-Process Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt Division into Chapters Notes References Part One: Two New Texts by Kristeva Chapter 1: Editor’s Introduction to Julia Kristeva’s “The Impossibility of Loss” (1988) References Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Loss Thing and Object The Act Would Be Merely Reprehensible A Blank Perversion Don Juan’s Wife: Sorrowful or Terrorist Roundtable Notes Chapter 3: Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress? Context of Julia Kristeva’s Public Lecture, in Minutes of the Ministry of Culture and Communications Notes References Part Two: Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies Chapter 4: Julia Kristeva’s Maternal Ethics of Tenderness Introduction Ethics of Tenderness Notes References Chapter 5: Kristeva in a Trans Poetic Frame Introduction: Julia Kristeva and the Transgender Turn Between Sex and Gender: The Empty Violence of Dualism Poetic Revolt and Trans Resistance Conclusion: Questioning Abstraction, Questioning Revolt References Chapter 6: Stranger than Other Strangers: On the Crossroads between Subjectivity and Language in Kristeva and Anzaldúa Introduction Revolution in Poetic Language Revisited: A Liminal Politics of Polyphony Stranger than Other Strangers Monsters of the Crossroads: Heterogeneity and Strangeness in the Borderlands Notes References Chapter 7: Theories of Poetic Resistance: Julia Kristeva and Sylvia Wynter Introduction Julia Kristeva and the Poetic Sylvia Wynter and the Poetic Contradictions and Interventions Returning to Kristeva Multiplicity Sociogeny Returning to Kristeva Return to Wynter Conclusion Notes References Chapter 8: Proust among the Patients: Kristeva on Proust, Psychoanalysis, and Politics Notes References Part Three: The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt Chapter 9: From Praxis to Chōra: The Filter of (In)Humanization in Julia Kristeva’s Early Work Preliminary Remarks Politics of the Avant-garde: Always Dissident The Case of Praxis From One Practice to Another The Semiotic, the Chōra: Why Two Terms? The Nombre The Nombrant The F(eminine) Boson Notes References Chapter 10: The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva with Lacan and Sartre Introduction The Mirror Stage, Castration, and Subject Formation Lacan’s Mirror Stage and Castration Kristeva on Lacan’s Mirror Stage and Castration The Mirror Stage of the Spectacle From Lacan to Sartre Kristeva on Sartre’s Mental Image and the Imaginary Conclusion: The Spectacular Imaginary Notes References Chapter 11: Rhythm and the Semiotic in Revolution in Poetic Language Introduction Rhythm between the Semiotic and the Symbolic Rhythm and Transposition Rhythm and the Effraction of the Thetic Rhythm and the Text as a Practice A Structural Sketch of Semiotic Rhythm Rhythm and Philosophical Practice Conclusion Notes References Chapter 12: Excription and the Negativity of the Speaking Subject: Reading Kristeva with Heidegger Temporal Latency of Grief and the Nonphenomenological Moment in Kristeva The Chōra and the Archive—Sublimation, Where Kristeva’s Green Differs from Derrida Freud, the Speculative Hypothesis of the Death Drive and Hegel in 1974 In Conclusion: Semiotic Inscription Notes References Chapter 13: Kristeva and Arendt on Language, Sanity, and the Sensus Communis Introduction “The only general symptom of insanity . . .”: Sensus communis and Political Communication The Other sensus communis and the Place of Intimacy Conclusion: On the Street, in the Abyss Notes References About the Contributors Index