Literature and Art as Diagnosis and Dissent in the Work of Michel Foucault

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Susan van Zyl, University of the Witwatersrand

Susan van Zyl is the Director of the Graduate School for Humanities and the social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are in the fields of literary theory and criticism, social theory and psychoanalysis. She has a particular interest in the work of Freud and Foucault and has written a number of articles on their work, especially where this work articulates questions of culture, in the wider sense of the term.

Ulrike Kistner, University of South Africa

Ulrike Kistner lectures in the Department of Classics & Modern EuropeanLanguages at UNISA. The fields of her teaching and research include literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment, psychoanalysis and literature, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and political philosophy. Sheis the author of numerous articles on issues in aesthetic theory, modernity and its discontents, transformations of the public sphere; and a book on post-apartheid human rights.

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2006-12-01

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van Zyl, Susan, and Ulrike Kistner. 2006. “Literature and Art As Diagnosis and Dissent in the Work of Michel Foucault : Introduction”. Journal of Literary Studies 22 (3/4):200-210. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/13285.

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Vol. 22 No. 3/4 (2006): Literature and Art as Diagnosis and Dissent in the Work of Michel Foucault

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