Roger Luckhurst Research Articles

From House to Home: A Kristevan Reading of Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House

Women writers have a penchant for burning down paternal houses that do not offer their female protagonists satisfactory homes.1 In Daughters of the House, Michèle Roberts prefers to transform rather than destroy the house in which her two main female characters reside, a metaphor for the patriarchal symbolic order,2 and she attempts this through an exploration of the conditions Julia Kristeva calls abjection and estrangement. Roger Luckhurst's recent reading of Daughters of the House points to the usefulness of psychoanalytic insights in reading Roberts's text. His essay, like mine, focuses on the relationship between memory and history; but whereas Luckhurst uses theories of mourning and melancholia to discuss repressed histories, I want to use Kristeva's theories of abjection and estrangement to explore the relationship between women and history and between femininity and repression from a woman-centered perspective.

Cyberpunk and the Dilemmas of Postmodern Narrative: The Example of William Gibson

n recent years science fiction has with some success struggled against its ghettoization as lowbrow genre fiction. Readers and critics have defended science fiction as having not only tradition of its own but also considerable overlap with modernist and postmodernist literature. Simultaneously, theorists like Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Donna Haraway have turned to as, in Annette Kuhn's words, a privileged cultural site for enactments of the postmodern condition (178). Indeed, for many cultural critics, has become the pre-eminent literary genre of the postmodern era, since it alone seems capable of understanding the rapid technological and cultural changes occurring in late capitalist, postindustrial society. In spite of this highbrow interest in science fiction, borders are still policed, and the ghetto endures. Even an apologist for like Darko Suvin can say dismissively that only 5 to 10 percent of SF is aesthetically in contrast to the ninety to ninetyfive percent that is strictly perishable stuff (vii). As Roger Luckhurst notes, in the postmodern discourse about SF, science fiction is seen as borrowing from the mainstream always belatedly, derivatively, and in degraded form (362). may have acquired new visibility outside its own coterie, especially among theorists, but old value hierarchies still work to keep books out of the hands of highand middlebrow readers. Hence, like the New Wave and ecofeminist of the 1960s and 1970s, cyberpunk, the most significant development in science fiction in the 1980s, is not widely known

Motes and Beams: A Further Response to White on the Upper Paleolithic

Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussion and CriticismMotes and Beams: A Further Response to White on the Upper PaleolithicPaul G. BahnPaul G. Bahn Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 31, Number 1Feb., 1990 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/203807 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1990 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Doron Shultziner, Thomas Stevens, Martin Stevens, Brian A. Stewart, Rebecca J. Hannagan, Giulia Saltini-Semerari The causes and scope of political egalitarianism during the Last Glacial: a multi-disciplinary perspective, Biology & Philosophy 25, no.33 (Mar 2010): 319–346.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-010-9196-4Jaco Weinstock Osteometry as a Source of Refined Demographic Information: Sex-Ratios of Reindeer, Hunting Strategies, and Herd Control in the Late Glacial site of Stellmoor, Northern Germany, Journal of Archaeological Science 27, no.1212 (Dec 2000): 1187–1195.https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1999.0542Clive Gamble Palaeolithic society and the release from proximity: A network approach to intimate relations, World Archaeology 29, no.33 (Feb 1998): 426–449.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1998.9980389Douglass W. Bailey Chronotypic tension in Bulgarian prehistory: 6500–3500 BC, World Archaeology 25, no.22 (Jul 2010): 204–222.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1993.9980238Paul G. Bahn, Helen Wilcox, Roger Luckhurst, Bruce Woodcock, David Glover, Paulina Palmer, Marion Shaw, Dzodzi Tsikata, Shaheen Sardar‐Ali, Martin Shaw, Andrew West, Tracey Warren, Jan Gordon, L. P. Flynn, Stan Smith, Valerie Pedlar, Marion Wynne‐Davies, M. C. Hardie, Helen Small, R. Headlam Wells, Janet Blackman, Pamela Blackman, Elizabeth Russell, Chris Weedon Reviews, Journal of Gender Studies 1, no.33 (May 1992): 338–398.https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.1992.9960504 Joao de Pina-Cabral On the Supposed Irreconcilability of Psychological and Sociological Explanations, Current Anthropology 32, no.33 (Oct 2015): 331–332.https://doi.org/10.1086/203964Matt Cartmill Primate visions: Gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science, International Journal of Primatology 12, no.11 (Feb 1991): 67–75.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02547559