Ross Kristin
Ross Kristin - The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune - Paperback
Ross Kristin - The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune - Paperback
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Description: The 1870s in France Rimbaud's moment and the subject of this book is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale and in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space as a social fact is always political and strategic Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune's anarchist culture its political language and social relations its values strategies and stances. Central to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud's poetry. His poems a common thread running through the book are one set of documents among many in Ross's recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud Paul Lafargue and the social geographer lis e Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaud's poetry. Applying contemporary theory to a wealth of little - known archival material she has written a fresh persuasive and original book.
Title: The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune
Author(s): Ross Kristin
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844672066
Pages: 190 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2008
Series: Radical Thinkers
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: The 1870s in France Rimbaud's moment and the subject of this book is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale and in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space as a social fact is always political and strategic Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune's anarchist culture its political language and social relations its values strategies and stances. Central to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud's poetry. His poems a common thread running through the book are one set of documents among many in Ross's recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud Paul Lafargue and the social geographer lis e Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaud's poetry. Applying contemporary theory to a wealth of little - known archival material she has written a fresh persuasive and original book.
Title: The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune
Author(s): Ross Kristin
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844672066
Pages: 190 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2008
Series: Radical Thinkers
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
