Public and Private Lives: Judith Butler’s Grief and the Loss of Black Self

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2019-0004

J. Maze

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Abstract

Abstract By looking at Butler’s theories on grief and mourning, I focus on her concept of ecstasy, or the state of being outside of one’s self, which illustrates the dependency individuals have on social norms as well as the vulnerability such a system of recognition entails. Using this framework, I discuss how the private and the public spheres can construct public bodies. If this happens, individuals can have little say over how their bodies are socially signified. To show this, I use the case of Black women in the USA, where systemic oppression constantly draws their bodies into the public’s eye.

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公共与私人生活:朱迪思·巴特勒的悲伤和黑人自我的丧失

通过研究巴特勒关于悲伤和哀悼的理论，我将重点放在她的狂喜概念上，或者说是一个人的自我之外的状态，这说明了个体对社会规范的依赖以及这种识别系统所带来的脆弱性。利用这一框架，我讨论了私人领域和公共领域如何构建公共主体。如果发生这种情况，个人对自己的身体在社会上的意义几乎没有发言权。为了证明这一点，我以美国黑人女性为例，那里的系统性压迫不断地将她们的身体吸引到公众的视线中。

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来源期刊

Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

0.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量

157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.