Domination and the arts of resistance : hidden transcripts
An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. Examples are drawn from literature, history and politics to illustrate the many guises the interaction of such discourses can take.
Print Book, English, [2009]
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Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, [2009]
XVIII, 251 Seiten
9780300047059, 9780300056693, 0300047053, 0300056699
705498994
Behind the official story; domination, acting and fantasy; the public transcript as a respectable performance; false-consciousness or laying it on thick; making social space for a dissident subculture; voice under domination - the arts of political disguise; the infrapolitics of subordinate groups; a saturnalia of power - the first public declaration of the hidden transcript.