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Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias
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Elizabeth Ho,
Akira Suwa
Humanities, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 8 - 10
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/h11010008
Abstract
The introduction to this special issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias investigates the affinitiesbetween the spaces designated by Michel Foucault’s ambivalent and protean concept of ‘heterotopia’and the similarly equivocal, shifting, and adaptable cultural phenomenon of ‘neo-Victorianism’.In both cas...
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| ISSN: | 2076-0787 |
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MDPI AG
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59173 |
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The introduction to this special issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias investigates the affinitiesbetween the spaces designated by Michel Foucault’s ambivalent and protean concept of ‘heterotopia’and the similarly equivocal, shifting, and adaptable cultural phenomenon of ‘neo-Victorianism’.In both cases, cultural spaces and/or artefacts prove deeply intertwined with chronicity, at oncejuxtaposing and blending different temporal moments, past and present. Socially produced sitesof distinct emplacement are exposed not just as culturally and historically contingent constructs,but simultaneously enable forms of resistance to the prevailing ideologies that call them into being.The fertile exercise of considering heterotopias and neo-Victorianism in conjunction opens up newexplorations of the Long Nineteenth Century and its impact on today’s cultural imaginary, memoryand identity politics, contestations of systemic historical iniquities, and engagements with forms ofdifference, non-normativity, and Otherness. |
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compensation; crisis; cultural memory; deviation; Michel Foucault; heterotopia; identitypolitics; illusion; neo-Victorianism; Otherness |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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8 |
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10 |