On pain of speech : fantasies of the first order and the literary rant /
Al-Kassim, Dina,1966-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The politics of address -- On being stubborn : Oscar Wilde and the modern type -- "The bar was not very gay" : new kinship and the serious writer's block -- "A long tirade for a direct interjection" : Talismano rebukes the oriental tale in Jacques Lacan's Séminaires.
Modernism (Literature)
Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Protest literature.