Crisis of the ‘Event’, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018)
This article argues that the notion of event, through its different facets and acceptations (Badiou, Deleuze and Derrida), is seminal to account for Gunaratne’s take on the city in In Our Mad and Furious City (2018). Whereas in fiction-writing the event is, as a rule, a necessary structuring device,...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/12945 |