Marginal Spatialities and Rhizomatic Identifications: Kathy Acker's Discursive Transgressions

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Eduardo Barros Grela Marí a Bobadilla-Perez
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제45집 1호, 145~176쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.05.31

영문 초록

Deleuze articulation of the concept of rhizome is taken by cultural theory as a collective mechanism of enunciation. With his contribution, he favored the construction of a solid ground for marginal voices acting as legitimate discourses. Also, his discussions of space (later retaken by specialists of the theories of space) problematized traditional epistemological relations that supported a hegemony-resistance pattern whose identity was determined by the existence of oppressed and minority groups. However, as Homi Bhabha claimed, those marginal groups possessed a subversive political agency, and they found in rhizomatic structures a perfect vehicle for the reappropriation (or rather reterritorialization) of space. This article studies the discursive deformations of Kathy Acker's narrative to embody the celebration of those silenced voices, as well as the marginal uprising favored by the postmodern fragmentation of identities. Rooting from Deleuze's principle of multiplicity, Acker's narratives question the relation of multiplicity with subject and subjectivity, and reconcile the performative function of those voices with intertextuality as a machinery of discursive production. Acker uses voice and taboo to resignify conventional hegemonic relations from a political imposture of transgression, violence, and-textual and ethical-decontextualized plagiarism. The deconstructive process necessary to carry out these practices provides several tools of theoretical articulation. Among them, both voice and taboo hold a fundamental position in this essay as they are conceptualized as instruments to problematize marginalization, and consequently, to become aporetic references of postmodern spatialities.

목차

Voice: Queen of the Pirates

Taboo: An Empire of the Senseless

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Abstract

키워드

Kathy Acker voice transgression taboo rhizomatic space