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The Common Growl

Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community

Thomas Claviez author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Published:1st Jul '16

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No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.

"Revolt does not discourse, it growls. What does 'growl' mean? It's almost an onomatopoeia. It means to bawl, bellow, and roar. It means to shout together, to murmur, mumble, grouse, become indignant, protest, become enraged together. One tends to grumble alone but people growl in common. The common growl is a subterranean torrent: it passes underneath, making everything tremble."--from Jean-Luc Nancy's Foreword

ISBN: 9780823270927

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216 pages