- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
The Force of Imagination
The Force of Imagination
This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and presents some final thoughts. The analysis in this book was based on the premise that the literary text can open visionary doors to reveal what other social discourses may not yet have articulated. There is much writing about the violence inscribed in the circle of domination—the circle whereby violence creates, enforces, and contests laws. That circle of violence is mediated by rituals, symbolic nets, institutions, and the institutional game of power relations. The chapter also considers the crises of membership brought about by the phenomena of globalization.
Keywords: violence, domination, globalization, rituals, power relations
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
