"Robbed of Meaning": The Work at the Center of To the Lighthouse

Emery, Mary Lou

doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0274

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“…I turn to the work of Emery (1992), Marcus (2004), Goldman (2006) and Carr (2010) to better understand the implications and relationships with imperialism, which seem to be embedded in Woolf's now infamous sentence. Marcus (2004, p. 28) suggests that the writings and political activities of Woolf's own family on racial freedomher great grandfather James Stephen campaigned for the anti-slavery movement in England during the mid-1800s and her husband Leonard Woolf wrote extensively about form an anticolonial perspective on Empire and commerce in Africaprovided a ready-made platform for her to promote the autonomy of women.…”

Section: Is This Not What You Thought Autoethnographic Writing Will Do?mentioning

confidence: 99%

In danger of writing

Mackinlay

2015

Qualitative Research Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of doing more with writing and autoethnography as ethical, response-able and decolonizing practice. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is written in a playful, performative and poetic way and engages with the writings and ideas of Helene Cixous and Virginia Woolf as a conversation between them and the author. Findings – This paper suggests that an autoethnographic writing practice which is at once affective, critical and performative, holds the possibilities to engage in decoloniality. Originality/value – Engagement with the past and present legacy of colonial practice in education and ethnography is crucial if the author want to move beyond social justice and decoloniality as metaphor. The writing practice put forward is new and challenging in its push to do this.

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Section: Is This Not What You Thought Autoethnographic Writing Will Do?mentioning

confidence: 99%

In danger of writing

Mackinlay

2015

Qualitative Research Journal

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Writing Decoloniality, with Cixous and Woolf

Mackinlay

2019

Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches

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Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature

Ellison

2001

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David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early German Romanticism from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and emphasizes how the passage from Romanticism to Modernism can be followed in the gradual transition from the sublime to the uncanny. Arguing that what we call High Modernism cannot be reduced to a religion of beauty, an experimentation with narrative form, or even a reflection on time and consciousness, Ellison demonstrates that Modernist textuality is characterized by the intersection, overlapping, and crossing of aesthetic and ethical issues. Beauty and morality relate to each other as antagonists struggling for dominance within the related fields of philosophy and theory on the one hand (Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud) and imaginative literature on the other (Baudelaire, Proust, Gide, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka).

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"Robbed of Meaning": The Work at the Center of To the Lighthouse

Cited by 56 publications

References 18 publications

In danger of writing

In danger of writing

Writing Decoloniality, with Cixous and Woolf

Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature

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