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<p>This dissertation explores the concept of <italic>agential abjection</italic> through Jean Genet's involvement with and writings about the struggles of disenfranchised and pathologized peoples. Following Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler has argued that modern subjectivity requires the production of a domain of abjected beings denied subjecthood and forced to live "unlivable" lives. "Agencies of Abjection" brings these feminist theories of abjection to bear on the multiple coordinates of social difference by exploring forms of abjection linked to sexuality, criminality, colonialism, and racialization. Situating Genet within an archive that includes the writings of former inmates of penal colonies, Francophone intellectuals, and Black Panther Party members, I analyze both the historical forces that produce abjection and the collective forms of agency that emerge from subaltern social forms. I find that the abjected are often able to elaborate impure, perverse, and contingent forms of agency from within the very institutions and discourses that would deny them subjecthood. </p><p>"Agencies of Abjection" carefully situates Genet's writing within the discursive fields in which it intervenes, including that of the memoirs and testimonies of former inmates of the boys' penal colonies, of Francophone decolonizing poets and intellectuals, and of Black Panther prison writings. This method illuminates subaltern genealogies of thought on the problems of abjection, subjection, and subaltern agency so central to Genet's writing. By charting the twists and turns between Genet's writing and that of other subaltern writers of abjection, "Agencies of Abjection" reads Genet as a thinker continually involved in a process of exchange, intervention, borrowing, and revision concerning the specific histories and experiences of social abjection.</p> / Dissertation

Understanding the functional relationship between characters and components of fitness is a central goal of evolutionary biology. The studies in this thesis examined the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences underlying differences in fitness among individuals of Lobelia cardinalis. Flowering plants experience selection from many sources, which may enhance or oppose selection by pollinators. In the second chapter of this thesis, the role of pollinators and herbivores in shaping selection on floral characters was investigated. Floral traits experienced pollinator-mediated selection and weak selection by weevil larvae and slugs. Because pollinators also forage according to local density of flowers, in the fourth chapter I explored how local density of individual plants and flowers influences fitness of individual plants. Plants at dense sites produced more seeds, consistent with pollinator preference for denser patches. Individual female-phase flowers produced more seeds as the density of surrounding male-phase flowers increased and female-phase flowers decreased. This study highlights how plant phenotype and local density influence pollination and subsequent plant fitness. In L. cardinalis rosette formation (a life-history character) partly shapes the distribution of plants, and may influence plant survival and fitness. In the fifth chapter, I explored how variation in allocation to clonal reproduction among plants (ramets) and genets influenced survival and fitness. Plants that produced more and larger rosettes realized higher survival independent of the phenotype of the parental. Plants that produced one rosette in 2009 produced more seeds in 2010 than plants that produced more than one rosette. This pattern was reversed in the following time period; plants that produced more rosettes in 2010 produced more seeds in 2011. The relative importance of pollinators versus other selective agents in shaping floral traits, as well as the intensity of competition among individual plants and flowers likely depend on the extent to which reproduction is pollen limited. In the third chapter, I explored how pollen limitation affected selection on floral traits via female fitness and found a weak relationship. Although this seems to contradict intuition, several reasons may limit the influence of pollen limitation on selection.

2 v. ; 26 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1974

Thesis (M.A.-Performance) (Hons.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1999. / Bibliography : p. 299-311.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss, 2003

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2003.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 20, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-170). Also issued as print manuscript.

La investigación que pretendo desarrollar en esta tesis tiene como propósito ser una aproximación a la obra dramática del autor francés Jean Genet (1910-1986), a través del estudio y análisis de Los negros, escrita en 1958 . Es una obra compleja, muy difícil de comprender en una primera instancia, debido a que en ella Genet extrema muchos de los recursos teatrales que había venido desarrollando en sus dramas precedentes. Esta misma complejidad es tal vez su mayor riqueza, en la medida en que abre la obra a diferentes dimensiones y posibilita múltiples lecturas. Como veremos, este drama exige, para abordar su análisis, considerar diferentes líneas teóricas y críticas. En esta tesis se expondrán y problematizarán algunas de estas líneas, en la medida en que son un marco indispensable para desarrollar la propuesta de análisis de esta investigación, que se centrará en el uso del lenguaje, donde se despliegan, a mi juicio, la mayoría de las problemáticas del texto, y donde se evidencian de mejor manera los efectos que busca provocar en el espectador.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22286号 / 理博第4600号 / 新制||理||1660(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻 / (主査)教授 工藤 洋, 教授 田村 実, 准教授 高山 浩司 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM