This thesis explores the different patterns of history presented in the fiction of the three major contemporary Chinese avant-garde writers Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Ge Fei as well as their respective views of history. Based on detailed case studies of the three writers, the thesis examines the complicated and intertwined relationships of contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction with previous Chinese traditions—Confucian, the May Fourth, and Communist—and with foreign influences. It also assesses the overall literary achievement of Chinese avant-garde fiction, its position in the history of modern Chinese literature, and its impact on the Chinese writers of later generations. Unlike most previous research on this subject, which overemphasizes the "alien" nature of Chinese avant-garde fiction or its discontinuity with Chinese tradition, this thesis aims at a more balanced investigation. Not only is the "newness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction deeply explored, its "Chineseness" or its profound continuity with Chinese literary and cultural conventions is also carefully examined. By comparison, the thesis attaches more importance to the "Chineseness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction. My analysis demonstrates that, while Su Tong aims at the total subversion of the Communist interpretation of the Chinese revolution and history, while Yu Hua attemptsto transcend the Maoist materialistic view of history through reincorporating subjectivity into historical interpretation, Ge Fei totally rejects the conceptualization of history and the underlying rationalistic assumption of human experience as a perceptible and understandable unity.

This thesis explores the different patterns of history presented in the fiction of the three major contemporary Chinese avant-garde writers Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Ge Fei as well as their respective views of history. Based on detailed case studies of the three writers, the thesis examines the complicated and intertwined relationships of contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction with previous Chinese traditions—Confucian, the May Fourth, and Communist—and with foreign influences. It also assesses the overall literary achievement of Chinese avant-garde fiction, its position in the history of modern Chinese literature, and its impact on the Chinese writers of later generations. Unlike most previous research on this subject, which overemphasizes the "alien" nature of Chinese avant-garde fiction or its discontinuity with Chinese tradition, this thesis aims at a more balanced investigation. Not only is the "newness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction deeply explored, its "Chineseness" or its profound continuity with Chinese literary and cultural conventions is also carefully examined. By comparison, the thesis attaches more importance to the "Chineseness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction. My analysis demonstrates that, while Su Tong aims at the total subversion of the Communist interpretation of the Chinese revolution and history, while Yu Hua attemptsto transcend the Maoist materialistic view of history through reincorporating subjectivity into historical interpretation, Ge Fei totally rejects the conceptualization of history and the underlying rationalistic assumption of human experience as a perceptible and understandable unity.

My project here is to look at how uncovering those unconscious and phantasmatic identifications in the social field can lead to the possibility of altering subjectivity or, at the very least, tracing how subjects are formed through structure and how they are psychically linked to ideological structure. This thesis suggests that subjection is never total or complete and that when viewed from an awry or skewed perspective, particular discourses and modes of subjection are revealed to be neither permanent, true nor necessary—we can always open up new spaces of subjectivity and discourse and through the practice of ‘tracing’ structure we can discern how we are determined and at which points structure constrains or enables us. My work is an effort to supplement theories of discourse analysis/ideology critique with psychoanalytic concepts, and more specifically, the psychoanalytic category of fantasy to discuss the ways in which discourses are provided with coherence and how subjects are tethered/binded to discursive fields. In my discussion of the non-discursive, I will be drawing from the Freudian concept of unheimlich, or the uncanny, to discuss the ways in which discursive fields become disrupted by repressed or “foreign” elements. I contend that the subject always exceeds structure, and for this reason, there is always room for resistance within discursive fields. / Thesis (Master, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2008-01-30 10:31:51.525

This thesis explores the different patterns of history presented in the fiction of the three major contemporary Chinese avant-garde writers Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Ge Fei as well as their respective views of history. Based on detailed case studies of the three writers, the thesis examines the complicated and intertwined relationships of contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction with previous Chinese traditions—Confucian, the May Fourth, and Communist—and with foreign influences. It also assesses the overall literary achievement of Chinese avant-garde fiction, its position in the history of modern Chinese literature, and its impact on the Chinese writers of later generations. Unlike most previous research on this subject, which overemphasizes the "alien" nature of Chinese avant-garde fiction or its discontinuity with Chinese tradition, this thesis aims at a more balanced investigation. Not only is the "newness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction deeply explored, its "Chineseness" or its profound continuity with Chinese literary and cultural conventions is also carefully examined. By comparison, the thesis attaches more importance to the "Chineseness" of Chinese avant-garde fiction. My analysis demonstrates that, while Su Tong aims at the total subversion of the Communist interpretation of the Chinese revolution and history, while Yu Hua attemptsto transcend the Maoist materialistic view of history through reincorporating subjectivity into historical interpretation, Ge Fei totally rejects the conceptualization of history and the underlying rationalistic assumption of human experience as a perceptible and understandable unity. / Arts, Faculty of / Asian Studies, Department of / Graduate

The Subjection of Women was the last book by John Stuart Hill published during his lifetime. It presented a philosophical analysis of the position of women in society, as unrecognised individuals both in public and domestic roles. Mill exposed the moral and ethical shortcomings' of a system which denied women legal status or moral equality, and he made a number of specific suggestions for reform, particularly respecting legal and educational rights for women. During the following sixty years in Britain, almost all of his suggested reforms were achieved. Because Mill' s specific pleas were answered, the Subjection of Women has come to be regarded as an out-of-date argument for conditions which have been corrected. The moral philosophy contained in the book received little or no attention. The knowledge of a present-day reader about John Stuart Mill is based chiefly upon his Autobiography and the essay On Liberty. The works which made Mill famous, his textbooks upon logic and political economy, are now read only by students of those fields. Readers of the Autobiography are not generally aware how skillfully Mill and his wife edited that book to remove most of the domestic circumstances of Mill's family, and to construct a textbook account of his education. Since the tone of the Autobiography is austere and rational, there has been a tendency to transfer these qualities to Mill himself. In fact, Mill has misled his readers. In The Subjection of Women, Mill reveals opinions about the social world and makes comments about family life which are the natural complement to his Autobiography. Like most major figures of the Victorian period, John Stuart Mill was a man of many abilities and interests—a 'generalist’, rather than a specialist—and any specialist view of his work is apt to be only a partial view of the man and his work. Often these partial views become the whole view. Even Mill's biographers have been unable to avoid this difficulty. Students of Mill's essays sometimes detect inconsistencies in thought, others assert that Harriet Taylor, later Mrs. Mill, dominated his later work. However, beyond the assumption that she suggested the topic to Mill, there is very little examination of the Subjection of Women and its ideas by modern critics or biographers. This study of the Subjection of Women argues for a line of consistent and continuous development in John Stuart Mill, and suggests that the book is pertinent to his biography. Various evidence in the thesis explains why it is not possible to accept the currently published views of the man. Accordingly Mill's family background and early training have been rehearsed from the unfamiliar domestic viewpoint, and the development of his ideas traced from his earliest writings the production of The Subjection of Women. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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Submitted by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-29T11:53:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-tania-correa-da-silva.pdf: 761983 bytes, checksum: 4a00229f02f295332b1cd69365e5db17 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-29T11:54:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-tania-correa-da-silva.pdf: 761983 bytes, checksum: 4a00229f02f295332b1cd69365e5db17 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-29T11:54:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-tania-correa-da-silva.pdf: 761983 bytes, checksum: 4a00229f02f295332b1cd69365e5db17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08 / Esta pesquisa pretende demonstrar que ao abrir uma nova perspectiva para o entendimento sobre as relações de saber e de poder, Foucault também apresenta uma nova possibilidade de interpretação para as relações de governo. Ela percorre a linha traçada pelo filósofo sobre as relações saber-poder e processos de sujeição, por meio do qual se torna possível desenhar um panorama crítico sobre a constituição das sociedades modernas. Nela corroboramos que as análises de Foucault, especialmente as de cunho genealógico, visam demonstrar a formação de um processo biopolítico, descrito como a captura das características biológicas do homem pelas estratégias de saber-poder, o que se efetiva pela soma de dois momentos correlatos. Um primeiro momento em que se efetivam as relações de poder e que, por isso, tem um caráter microfísico e interpessoal. E, um segundo momento no qual essas relações microfísicas adquirem um caráter macrossocial, através da interação com uma racionalidade a qual o filósofo chamou de governamentalidade. Essa pesquisa tem ainda por objetivo mostrar que, a análise empreendida por Foucault tece uma crítica bastante contundente sobre como os dispositivos de poder se correlacionam aos processos de constituição de saber e que essa correlação é o que torna possível a ação de um governo. Por fim, investiga, na trilha do pensamento de Foucault, como os homens do Ocidente teriam se sujeitado ao governo de outros iguais e ainda como seria possível romper com esse tipo de relação. / This research aims to demonstrate that when to open a new perspective for the understanding of the relationships of knowing and power, Foucault also presents a new possibility of the interpretation for government relations. It goes through which the line drawn by the philosopher about relations know-power and processes of subjection, through which it make it possible to draw a critical overview on the constitution of modern societies. In it, we corroborate that Foucault's analyses, especially the of genealogical nature, aim to demonstrate the formation of a biopolitical process, described as the capture of the biological characteristics of man by the strategies of know-power, this process becomes effective by the sum of two moments. A first moment, wherein it effects the power relations and that therefore has an interpersonal character and microphysics. And, a second moment, in which these microphysics relationships acquire a macrosocial character, through interaction with a rationality which the philosopher called governmentality. This research has yet for objective to show that the analysis undertaken by Foucault weaves a fairly blunt criticism about how the power devices correlate to the formation processes of the know and that this correlation is what makes possible the action of a government. Finally, it investigates, on the trail of Foucault's thought, as the men from the West submitted themselves at government of other alike and yet how would it be possible to break with this kind of relationship. / TEDE

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:49:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-10-31. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-11T03:26:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-TaniaCorreadaSilva.pdf: 761160 bytes, checksum: e311440f4f88ccaff35f0de924e1c34d (MD5) / Esta pesquisa pretende demonstrar que ao abrir uma nova perspectiva para o entendimento sobre as relações de saber e de poder, Foucault também apresenta uma nova possibilidade de interpretação para as relações de governo. Ela percorre a linha traçada pelo filósofo sobre as relações saber-poder e processos de sujeição, por meio do qual se torna possível desenhar um panorama crítico sobre a constituição das sociedades modernas. Nela corroboramos que as análises de Foucault, especialmente as de cunho genealógico, visam demonstrar a formação de um processo biopolítico, descrito como a captura das características biológicas do homem pelas estratégias de saber-poder, o que se efetiva pela soma de dois momentos correlatos. Um primeiro momento em que se efetivam as relações de poder e que, por isso, tem um caráter microfísico e interpessoal. E, um segundo momento no qual essas relações microfísicas adquirem um caráter macrossocial, através da interação com uma racionalidade a qual o filósofo chamou de governamentalidade. Essa pesquisa tem ainda por objetivo mostrar que, a análise empreendida por Foucault tece uma crítica bastante contundente sobre como os dispositivos de poder se correlacionam aos processos de constituição de saber e que essa correlação é o que torna possível a ação de um governo. Por fim, investiga, na trilha do pensamento de Foucault, como os homens do Ocidente teriam se sujeitado ao governo de outros iguais e ainda como seria possível romper com esse tipo de relação. / TEDE

Submitted by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-21T17:32:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-emanuel-dos-santos-sasso.pdf: 1148278 bytes, checksum: 5caf16d9c0844820837c0c6b88fd922d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-21T17:37:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-emanuel-dos-santos-sasso.pdf: 1148278 bytes, checksum: 5caf16d9c0844820837c0c6b88fd922d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-21T17:37:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-emanuel-dos-santos-sasso.pdf: 1148278 bytes, checksum: 5caf16d9c0844820837c0c6b88fd922d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta dissertação pretende compreender as reflexões propostas pelo filósofo francês Michel Foucault – sem dúvida um dos pensadores mais emblemáticos do século XX – acerca do tema das tecnologias e relações de poder. Para isso discorreremos sobre o tema da disciplina, que se encontra, principalmente, na obra Vigiar e punir (1975), buscando compreender a relação entre a análise do poder disciplinar e outros momentos e conceitos da vasta produção bibliográfica foucaultiana, tais como as noções de biopolítica, governamentalidade, liberdade e resistência. Para tal, realizaremos uma incursão pelas suas diversas obras, cursos, palestras, conferências e entrevistas que, ao mesmo tempo em que dialogam e produzem intervenções em vários campos do conhecimento, não podem ser reduzidas a nenhum desses campos, sob pena de perder, significativamente, parte de sua produção. Para o pensador, filosofar consiste em pensar não no verdadeiro e no falso, mas em nossas próprias relações com a verdade e a falsidade. Seguindo tal raciocínio, o presente trabalho procura, ainda, investigar e analisar as experiências que tem submetido o homem a um processo de sujeição por meio dos mecanismos repressores ou não, e como ele, o homem, tem articulado seus pensamentos para a elaboração de um contra-poder, de uma estratégia de enfrentamento e de resistência. A nossa proposta de investigação traz, além das discussões sobre “o que é o poder”, aquelas acerca de seu funcionamento e ação. Por fim, nosso trabalho também se propõe a realizar contribuições ao estudo das relações de poder, explicitando os caminhos abertos por Michel Foucault, apontando para além de uma exegese teórica da experiência filosófica do autor, pois acreditamos ser necessário pensar diferentemente ao invés de contribuir para a constatação da inevitabilidade do que existe. / This dissertation aims to understand the reflections proposed by French philosopher Michel Foucault - undoubtedly one of the most emblematic thinkers of the twentieth century - on the theme of technologies and power relations. For this, we will discuss the issue of discipline, which is mainly appears in the book Discipline and Punish (1975), seeking to understand the relationship between the analysis of disciplinary power and other moments and concepts of Foucault's extensive bibliographic production, such as the notions of biopolitics, governmentality, freedom and resistance. In order to accomplish such task, we will approach several works, courses, lectures, conferences and interviews, while that dialogue and produce interventions in various areas of knowledge, cannot be reduced to any of these areas, under penalty of losing significantly part of its production. To the thinker, philosophize is to think not in the true and the false, but in our own relationship with the truth and falsehood. Following this reasoning, the present study also seeks to investigate and analyze the experiences that have subjected the man to a process of subjection by means of repressive mechanisms or not, and how he, the man, has articulated his thoughts to the elaboration of a counter-power, a strategy of confrontation and resistance. Our research proposal brings, besides discussing "what is the power", those concerning their operation and action. Finally, our work also intends to make contributions to the study of power relations, explaining the paths opened by Michel Foucault, pointing beyond a theoretical exegesis of philosophical experience of the author, because we believe it is necessary to think differently rather than contribute to the realization of the inevitability of what exists.

Submitted by Glauber de Assunção Moreira (glauber.moreira@ufba.br) on 2018-09-25T19:43:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_MARCIA_MIGNAC.pdf: 1949392 bytes, checksum: b279e9ca0ee60aa007585d9e411ce069 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-09-26T18:35:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_MARCIA_MIGNAC.pdf: 1949392 bytes, checksum: b279e9ca0ee60aa007585d9e411ce069 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-26T18:35:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_MARCIA_MIGNAC.pdf: 1949392 bytes, checksum: b279e9ca0ee60aa007585d9e411ce069 (MD5) / Esta dissertação apresenta a dança do ventre como uma ação política trabalhada em três eixos: corpos-sujeitos, corpos-instituições e na oficialização da dança nos espaços institucionais. Para tanto, defende a hipótese de que a dança do ventre é uma ação subvertedora e propositora de reorganizações corporais, uma vez que atua no mesmo ambiente de ocorrência da sujeição. Para entender o corpo que dança na situação do abuso sexual, o estudo apresenta a implementação da dança do ventre em instituições especializadas da cidade de Salvador-Ba. O objetivo é analisar criticamente os encaminhamentos de dança desenvolvidos nessas instituições, de forma experimental, nos anos 2004 e 2005. Para isso, através de leituras e análises sistemáticas, foi selecionado um recorte teórico concernente às relações estabelecidas entre dança, dança do ventre, corpo, poder e sujeição. Destacam-se autores como Katz e Greiner, Lakoff & Jonhson em diálogo com as obras de Foucault, e autores das ciências políticas como Pélbart, Butler e Agamben. A abordagem metodológica se dá via procedimentos e etapas de investigação, através da aplicação de entrevistas semi-estruturadas; da análise dos dados coletados nas experiências corporais; da análise crítica dos experimentos propostos e da articulação com as instituições receptoras. Desse empreendimento, a dissertação propõe-se ainda a discutir o lugar do corpo e do corpo que dança em espaços institucionais que adotam procedimentos da natureza no trabalho com adolescentes sujeitadas pelo abuso sexual. A observação das relações e implicações filosóficas-políticas dos corpos-sujeitos e dos corpos-instituições envolvidos na discussão do abuso sexual serve ao propósito de indicar possíveis devoluções às instituições, entendidas na etapa final do estudo como proposições, ao invés de conclusões finais. O estudo prestou-se ainda à tarefa de propor a oficialização da dança no protocolo de serviços das instituições analisadas. / This dissertation presents belly dance as a political action, worked in three areas: body-fellows, body-institutions and officialize dance in institutional spaces. To do so, it defends the hypothesis that belly dance is a subversive and deliberated action of corporal reorganization, because it acts in the same environment where the subjection occurs. In order to understand the body that dances in a context of sexual abuse, the research presents the study of the establishment of belly dance in specialized institutions in Salvador – Bahia. Its aim is to analyze critically the course of developed dances in those institutions in an experimental way through years of 2004 e 2005. To this, through readings and systematic analyses, a theoretical border was selected, linked to the relations established between dance, belly dance, body, power and subjection. Authors like Kaltz and Greiner, Lakoff and Johnson were highlighted in a dialog with Foucault’s works and authors from political science, like Pelbart, Butler and Agamben. The methodological approach is made through procedures and investigation steps, in the application of semi-structured interviews; in data’s analyses collected in corporal experiences, in the critical analysis of the proposed experiments and the articulations with these receptive institutions. More, this dissertation proposes to discuss the place of the body and the body that dances in institutional spaces that adopt such procedures in their labor with subjected teenagers by sexual abuse. The observation of the relations and philosophical and political implications of the body-fellows and body-institutions involved in the discussion of sexual abuse are important to indicate return to those institutions, understood in the final phase of this study as propositions, in opposition to final conclusions. The research proposed, also, the duty of suggesting to officialize the dance in the protocol of services offered in the analyzed institutions.