Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Bio-Politics in the Works of World Bank and Dace
The World Bank and Dace provide multiple means to apprehend and resist the forces of biopolitics. We use Foucault's discipline in relation to Wolf's Mrs. Dalloway and on Dace in the Skin of a Lion. The novels show how very, very dangerous it is to live every day. And I would suggest that in what we find is that the objects of one discursive practice serves as the grounds for the others.
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