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Nomads and nomadologies: Transforma...

Johnson, Brian R.

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Nomads and nomadologies: Transformations of the primitive in twentieth-century theory and culture.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Nomads and nomadologies: Transformations of the primitive in twentieth-century theory and culture./
作者:	Johnson, Brian R.
面頁冊數:	473 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3290.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
標題:	Literature, Modern. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ83723
ISBN:	0612837238

Nomads and nomadologies: Transformations of the primitive in twentieth-century theory and culture.
Johnson, Brian R.

Nomads and nomadologies: Transformations of the primitive in twentieth-century theory and culture. - 473 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3290.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2003.

This thesis analyzes the proliferation of nomadic tropes in recent Euro-American literary and theoretical discourse as both a symptom and a strategic response to what Fredric Jameson calls "the cultural logic of late capitalism." Although current uses of the nomad to signal nostalgic or radical consciousness tend to claim a decisive break with the Eurocentric vocabulary of modernist primitivism on the grounds that they privilege spatial categories over temporal ones, the shift from modernist primitivism to postmodernist nomadology represents neither a decisive break nor a simple repetition, but an ambiguous mutation in the structure of twentieth-century primitivism. Both the complexity and the appeal of the nomad for contemporary writers, I argue, stems from the nomad's unique synthesis of spatial and temporal categories.

ISBN: 0612837238Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a The first chapter of the thesis provides a genealogy of the nomad in anthropological writing since the eighteenth century to illustrate nomadism's constitutive implication in temporal-evolutionary paradigms and to trace the emergence of two competing nomadic figures: "the pure nomad" (whose mobility derives from pastoralism) and "the general nomad" (whose mobility is unqualified). Chapter Two explores how the poetics of these competing nomadic figures both instantiate and diverge from modernist primitivism through readings of their function as signs of dwelling and homecoming in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935), Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines (1987), and Michael Asher's The Last of the Bedu (1996). Following Jameson's account of modernity and postmodernity as periods dominated experientially by categories of time and space respectively, I identify a general shift towards nomadic representations of the primitive in Chatwin and Asher's works, and a more specific shift in representations of nomadism itself from the evolutionary "pure nomadism" favored by Lawrence, to the more spatially-oriented "general nomadism" preferred by his successors.
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