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Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba

Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/124/867440/0270124.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 tury. And, in being recognized by the king, they might preserve their “honor” and prove their “probity.” Indeed, no two words held a more prominent place in the supplicants’ mental universe. Disorderly Families, now reprinted by Gallimard over thirty years after it was first published in 1982 and newly translated, is as close as Foucault ever came to realizing his long- imagined project of “Lives of Infamous Men.” Disorderly Families has affinities, too, with I, Pierre Rivière of 1973: we even encounter Guil- laume Sauvage wielding the same billhook against his parents as Pierre Rivière used to murder his mother and two sisters. Disorderly Families is far less intensely biographical. Its infamous letters present what Foucault called life poems ( vies poèmes) or flash existences ( existences éclairs). The accumulation of disturbance, drunkenness, debauchery, dissipation, depravity, and dementi— a of disorder in all its myriad forms— recalls as well Madness and Civilization, with Foucault’s atten- tion less on idealizing the excluded than on retrieving from amid the formalized address of the lettres de cachet the desperation with which so many sought to exit their “private hells.” As Farge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba

Petel, Adir H.
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/124/867440/0270124.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 tury. And, in being recognized by the king, they might preserve their “honor” and prove their “probity.” Indeed, no two words held a more prominent place in the supplicants’ mental universe. Disorderly Families, now reprinted by Gallimard over thirty years after it was first published in 1982 and newly translated, is as close as Foucault ever came to realizing his long- imagined project of “Lives of Infamous Men.” Disorderly Families has affinities, too, with I, Pierre Rivière of 1973: we even encounter Guil- laume Sauvage wielding the same billhook against his parents as Pierre Rivière used to murder his mother and two sisters. Disorderly Families is far less intensely biographical. Its infamous letters present what Foucault called life poems ( vies poèmes) or flash existences ( existences éclairs). The accumulation of disturbance, drunkenness, debauchery, dissipation, depravity, and dementi— a of disorder in all its myriad forms— recalls as well Madness and Civilization, with Foucault’s atten- tion less on idealizing the excluded than on retrieving from amid the formalized address of the lettres de cachet the desperation with which so many sought to exit their “private hells.” As Farge

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