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Title:
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THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL SPACE
RIMBAUD AND THE PARIS COMMUNE |
By: |
Kristin Ross |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
1844672069 |
ISBN 13: |
9781844672066 |
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Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
14 December, 2007 |
Series: |
Radical Thinkers Set 3 |
Pages: |
176 |
Description: |
A ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution. |
Synopsis: |
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 Elisee 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." |
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Illustrations |
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UK |
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Verso Books |
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