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- Title
The Body-Minded Non-Normativity of Violet Jacob's Temporal Others.
- Authors
Introna, Arianna
- Abstract
Violet Jacob's fiction expresses a profound and persistent interest in temporal Others; namely, in individuals or communities that are excluded from, or are perceived to be obstacles to, historical progress. To render the intensity of the conflict that produces, and is in turn produced by, these processes of exclusion and rejection, Jacob repeatedly draws upon imageries of non-normative bodies and minds, ways of looking and states of being. These imageries invest temporal Others with non-normative body-minded features that simultaneously accentuate the otherness they signify and root it in dynamics of rejection and exclusion that specifically constitute the social and cultural phenomenon of disability. Bringing into conversation disability studies, Walter Benjamin's conception of history and Byung-Chul Han's theory of the Other, this article will delineate patterns in the entanglement of temporal and body-minded dimensions of otherness that Jacob's non-normative temporal Others materialise. It will also explore Jacob's own status as temporal Other within the contemporary Scottish literary tradition and the potentialities attached to the re-collection of her work that derive from this temporal otherness.
- Subjects
JACOB, Violet; FICTION writing; OTHER (Philosophy); INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); SCOTTISH literature
- Publication
Scottish Literary Review, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1756-5634
- Publication type
Article