The Misinterpellated Subject
1st Edition
Published on 2. February 2017
344 pages
978-0-8223-7343-8 (ISBN)
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James R. Martel complicates Louis Althusser's theory of interpellation, using historical and literary analyses ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Ta-Nehisi Coates to examine the political and revolutionary potential inherent in the instances when people heed the state's call that was not meant for them.
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James R. Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and the author of several books, most recently, The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Unsummoned! When the Call Is Not Meant for You 1
Part I. Subjects of the Call
1. From "Hey, You There!" to "Wait Up!": The Workings (and Unworkings) of Interpellation 35
2. "Men Are Born Free and Equal in Rights": Historical Examples of Interpellation aend Misinterpellation 58
3. "Tiens, un Nègre": Fanon and the Refusal of Colonial Subjectivity 96
Part II. The One(s) Who Showed Up
4. "[A Person] Is Something That Shall Be Overcome": The Misinterpellated Messiah, or How Nietzsche Saves Us from Salvation 133
5. "Come, Come!": Bartleby and Lily Briscoe as Nietzschean Subjects 163
6. "Consent to Not Be a Single Being": Resisting Identity, Confronting the Law in Kafka's Amerika, Ellison's Invisible Man, and Coates's Between the World and Me 198
7. "I Can Believe": Breaking the Circuits of Interpellation in von Trier's Breaking the Waves 243
Conclusion. The Misinterpellated Subject: Anarchist All the Way Down 266
Notes 275
Bibliography 309
Index 317
Introduction. Unsummoned! When the Call Is Not Meant for You 1
Part I. Subjects of the Call
1. From "Hey, You There!" to "Wait Up!": The Workings (and Unworkings) of Interpellation 35
2. "Men Are Born Free and Equal in Rights": Historical Examples of Interpellation aend Misinterpellation 58
3. "Tiens, un Nègre": Fanon and the Refusal of Colonial Subjectivity 96
Part II. The One(s) Who Showed Up
4. "[A Person] Is Something That Shall Be Overcome": The Misinterpellated Messiah, or How Nietzsche Saves Us from Salvation 133
5. "Come, Come!": Bartleby and Lily Briscoe as Nietzschean Subjects 163
6. "Consent to Not Be a Single Being": Resisting Identity, Confronting the Law in Kafka's Amerika, Ellison's Invisible Man, and Coates's Between the World and Me 198
7. "I Can Believe": Breaking the Circuits of Interpellation in von Trier's Breaking the Waves 243
Conclusion. The Misinterpellated Subject: Anarchist All the Way Down 266
Notes 275
Bibliography 309
Index 317
