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Type: Journal article
Title: Writing the Indian Ocean: immersion in seven waves
Author: Muecke, S.
Citation: Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 2016; 21(2):85-89
Publisher: Routledge
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1352-8165
1469-9990
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Stephen Muecke
Abstract: The aesthetic experience is often characterized as ‘working’ when the self loses its bearings in feelings of immersion. The text presented here experiments with immersion as engagement and ontological entanglement. This fragmentary piece has seven numbered sections spelling out the recipe for a genre—fictocriticism—that narrates without reproducing the familiar patterns of literary fiction. Each has actors representing different ontological modes: history (2), literary aesthetics (3) (in which a Jonathan Franzen character is given new life), myth (4), factual writing (5), performance (6) and economics (7). The writing makes explicit the pathways of research that could play a part in an impossible project: writing the Indian Ocean. All these actors are linked into networks that precede the writing, yet continue to traverse it as well. This heterogeneous text experiments with immersion in these different ontological modes, and no doubt fails, unless the reader responds better to more complex relations than to simpler subject–object ones.
Rights: © 2016 Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2016.1162495
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1162495
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