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Transnational Literature in America: Where Do We Stand Twenty Years after Fishkin's Transnational Turn?
No full textMigrating Possibilities: Jonathan Escoffery's "In Flux" and "Independent Living"
No full textThe first- and second-generation immigrant characters in Jonathan Escoffery’s short story collection If I Survive You (2022) struggle to belong as they navigate racism, a precarious existence in a foreign country, and familial conflicts. Both the precarity characteristic of the migrant condition and the histories of colonialism, with its enduring legacy in shaping contemporary migration flows from the so-termed Global South to the North, come to be highlighted by Escoffery through these works of short fiction. The eight stories, though they may be read as parts of a whole, are nonetheless separate, self-contained literary works. It is through his characters and their trajectories that Escoffery critiques institutionalized racism and the facile promises that the term “American dream” embodies. In this article two short stories from If I Survive You, “In Flux” and “Independent Living,” are analyzed with a view to opening up a larger academic discussion on how writers such as Escoffery, reflecting deterritorialization through the form of the short story and the English language, may be seen as opening up the borders of what may be referred to as American literary fiction. The article also explores how the character/narrator Trelawny may be seen as an attempt at autofiction by the author, whose life has followed a similar trajectory, and how that becomes an important aesthetic choice for Escoffery’s politics of literary representation of the transnational Jamaican-American community
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‘The Subject and Power’ – Four Decades Later: Tracing Foucault’s Evolving Concept of Subjectivation
Full text linkMichel Foucault’s essay ‘The Subject and Power’ has seen four decades. It is the most quoted of Foucault’s shorter texts and exerts a persistent influence across the social sciences and humanities. The essay merges two main trajectories of Foucault’s research in the 1970s: his genealogies of legal-disciplinary power and his studies of pastoral power and governance. This article connects these two trajectories to Althusser’s thesis on the ideological state apparatuses, demonstrating affinities between Althusser’s thesis and Foucault’s diagnosis of the welfare state as a ‘matrix’ of individualising and totalising power. The article suggests that Foucault’s essay straddles between two different concepts of subjectivation. First, one encounters the citizen ‘internally subjugated’ by disciplinary and pastoral power, whereas, at the end, we find a ‘flat’ subject of governance; a form of power which intervenes only in the environment in which individuals make their rational, self-fashioning choices. The implication of Foucault’s newfound concept of governance is a weakening of the link between subjectivation and the formation of the state, which also meant that the state’s role in reproducing capitalism receded into the background of Foucauldian scholarship. Finally, the article suggests extending Foucault’s analytical ‘matrix’ to current techniques of subjectivation associated with the advent of big data and artificial intelligence, which buttress the expansive technique of predictive profiling