Michel Foucault

According to Ngugi, “literature is a reflection on the aesthetic and imaginative planes, of a community’s wrestling with its total environment to produce the basic means of life… and in the process creating and re-creating itself in history.” This is also the basic premise of the play which sensitively registers the account of the Mau Mau, which had effectively sublimated in the documented history of the Jomo Kenyatta regime. It is noteworthy that the play opens with a song by a crowd of…

cooked/raw) reveal the unconscious logic or "grammar" of a system. Literary structuralism views literary texts as systems of interrelated signs and seeks to make explicit their hidden logic. Prominent figures in the structuralist movement are Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson, and Roland Barthes. Areas of study that have adopted and developed structuralist premises and methodologies include semiotics and narratology. See also…

In Eileen J. Suarez Findlay’s work, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920, Findlay offers a nuanced and compassionate discussion of the relationships between people of Puerto Rico and the meanings inscribed upon those relationships. Findlay is able to achieve this through her use of a wide range of types of sources, her careful insistence on breaking apart binaries, and her use of “discourse” in her methodology and analysis, which allows for a rich look…

Michel Foucault in the book, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, describes narrative as a way for the writer to “ward off death”, in that every time the narrative is told, the writer is made to live (206). Writing For Esme — with Love and Squalor, can be seen…

In recent years narratives have gained ascendance in psychology and sociology as well, such that they now occupy a vital role in theories of social life (Presser 2009). There have been studies done on this topic from philosophers such as Michele Foucault. The literature points to the positive effect that these prisoner autobiographies can be used to grasp a better understanding of the prison system. This understanding can inform popular ideas about the prison system, based on the inside…

In its quest for legitimacy, the traditional view in public administration distinctly attempts to associate reason with judgment. The desire for rational, technical decision-making has become a powerful organizing principle in public administration. While this model has dominated the discussions and debates in the scholarly work, there are some who also argue that legitimacy of the state itself is not public administration’s problem (Miller, 2004a). Miller’s position takes place under a working…

Without any doubt and exaggeration, these days social networking websites became an integral part of our everyday life, and most of people would have certain problems with imagining their existence without of them: it is not only the question of entertainment, but also an aspect of social and professional interaction. Each day at least ten minutes is spent in order to check the latest news, photos and links provided by numbers of social networks. To such useful tools Facebook is also related,…

similar to what Bhabha puts forward in “Signs Taken for Wonders: The Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May1817”—the concept of hybridity. In it, Bhabha, by applying some theories from many theorists, M. Bakhtin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault in particular, has successfully demonstrated that hybridity exists in the colonial authoritative discourse and the possibility of resistance it brings…

our identity. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Sexology developed about 140 years ago. However, sexology scientifically studied the identification of sex as a human behavior necessary for survival (Wilson 194). A French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault, believed that sexuality revealed potential meanings of society; in fact, he argued that the 17th century was an era that gave birth to writings and influences incorporating sex as an…

Sexual attitudes have changed tremendously throughout history. In the 19th century women were seen as inferior individuals and did not equal up to the status of a man. Education and beauty did not at all matter to the superior sex of males. Women’s roles, economic status, and social status were all dominated by the male society. Silence lingered among women during the 19th century. They did as they were told and remained under the control of men. They spoke when spoken to and had intercourse…