Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- The Principal Works of Nuruddin Farah as Referred to in The Disorder of Things
- 1 Taking On Foucault and Fleshing Out Farah: Opportunities for Dialogue and Reflections on Method
- 2 Quivering at the Heart of the Variations Cycle: Labyrinths of Loss in Sweet and Sour Milk
- 3 So Vast the Prison: Agonistic Power Relations in Sardines
- 4 Through the Maze Darkly: Incarceration and Insurrection in Close Sesame
- 5 From the Carceral to the Bio-political: The Dialectical Turn Inwards in Maps
- 6 ‘A Call to Alms’: Gifts and the Possibilities of a Foucauldian Reading
- 7 Trajectories of Implosion and Explosion: The Politics of Blood and Betrayal in Secrets
- 8 Bringing It All Back Home: Theorising Diaspora and War in Yesterday, Tomorrow and Links
- 9 A Woman Apart: Entanglements of Power, Disintegration and Restoration in Knots
- 10 Pirates of the Apocalypse: Where Next?
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- The Principal Works of Nuruddin Farah as Referred to in The Disorder of Things
- 1 Taking On Foucault and Fleshing Out Farah: Opportunities for Dialogue and Reflections on Method
- 2 Quivering at the Heart of the Variations Cycle: Labyrinths of Loss in Sweet and Sour Milk
- 3 So Vast the Prison: Agonistic Power Relations in Sardines
- 4 Through the Maze Darkly: Incarceration and Insurrection in Close Sesame
- 5 From the Carceral to the Bio-political: The Dialectical Turn Inwards in Maps
- 6 ‘A Call to Alms’: Gifts and the Possibilities of a Foucauldian Reading
- 7 Trajectories of Implosion and Explosion: The Politics of Blood and Betrayal in Secrets
- 8 Bringing It All Back Home: Theorising Diaspora and War in Yesterday, Tomorrow and Links
- 9 A Woman Apart: Entanglements of Power, Disintegration and Restoration in Knots
- 10 Pirates of the Apocalypse: Where Next?
- Index
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- The Disorder of ThingsA Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah, pp. 299 - 307Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2014