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    Ostranenie

    On Shame and Knowing

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    Author(s)
    Bowker, M.H.
    Collection
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    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Ostranenie, the term for defamiliarization introduced by Russian writer and critic Victor Shklovsky, means, among other things, to see in strangeness. To see in strangeness is to participate in an illusion that is more real than real. It may be achieved by (re)presenting the surface as the substance, the play as the thing, or by examining (from exigere: to drive out) what is present before one’s eyes. Ultimately, ostranenie means confessing one’s complicity in making known what is known. M.H. Bowker’s Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing is a meditation upon the moment of a mother’s death: a moment of defamiliarization in several senses. The body of the work consists of footnotes which elaborate, by exegesis, by parataxis, and sometimes by surprise, the intimate and often hidden relationships between parent and child, illusion and knowledge, shame and loss. These elaborations raise questions about the power of the familiar, the limitations of discursive thought, and the paradoxical nature of the interpersonal, political, and spiritual bargains we make for the sake of security and freedom.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25596
    Keywords
    memoir; family; therapy; shame; poetry
    DOI
    10.21983/P3.0019.1.00
    ISBN
    9780615744797
    OCN
    945782690
    Publisher
    punctum books
    Publisher website
    https://punctumbooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    Brooklyn, NY, 2012
    Classification
    Memoirs
    Pages
    50
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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