Bare Mind: Dementia and the Diasporic State of Exception in David Chariandy's Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting

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dc.contributor.authorLudolph, Rebekah
dc.contributor.supervisorShukin, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-24T22:17:32Z
dc.date.available2013-04-24T22:17:32Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-04-24
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Englishen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractMy reading of the figure of Adele, a woman with dementia, in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting (2007), brings Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concept of “bare life” together with the notion of the subject in diaspora to theorize a new mentality that I call “bare mind.” The notion of “bare mind” addresses how cognitive imperialism creates a biopolitical state of exception both under forms of sovereign power and within a liberal regime of multicultural governmentality, while acknowledging the ways in which dementia, portrayed as the ‘forgetting’ of dominant knowledge regimes, reveals resistance to cognitive imperialism.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0352en_US
dc.description.proquestemailrebekah.ludolph@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4545
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectCanadian Multiculturalismen_US
dc.subjectBiopoweren_US
dc.subjectBare Lifeen_US
dc.subjectGovernmentalityen_US
dc.subjectAgambenen_US
dc.subjectDementiaen_US
dc.subjectTrinidaden_US
dc.subjectSoucouyanten_US
dc.subjectDavid Chariandyen_US
dc.subjectCognitive Imperialismen_US
dc.subjectDiagnosisen_US
dc.subjectBlack Atlanticen_US
dc.titleBare Mind: Dementia and the Diasporic State of Exception in David Chariandy's Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgettingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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