This book demonstrates how world fiction by Woolf, Foucault, and Ondaatje counters biopolitics with aesthetic and political¿biopoetic¿strategies producing transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility. It defines and explores heterotopic processes fostering a slant perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

Lesley Higgins, Professor of English at York University, specializes in late Victorian and modernist studies. Author of The Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics, she has also edited three volumes of Gerard Manley Hopkins¿s prose. Research interests include world literature, feminist studies of modernism, textual studies, and poetry.

Marie-Christine Leps, Associate Professor of English at York University, is founding coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in World Literature. Author of Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance, she specializes in literary and cultural theory, world literature, and discourse analysis. Her current project focuses on world fictions of friendship.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations                 
List of Figures                    

Introduction: Heterotopic World Fiction

Part One.   Biopolitics: Technologies of the Individual   
Correlating Knowledge and Power Relations: The Birth of Biopolitics
Discipline and Punish: Discerning the Dangerous     
Mrs. Dalloway: A Dangerous Day
In the Skin of a Lion: Dangerous Yearnings      

Part Two.   Biopoetics: Technologies of the Worldly Self
From Biopolitics to Biopoetics

Concepts

Parrh¿sia: Dangerous Truth Telling   
Bios/Logos: Living Truth
Ask¿sis: The Art of Elaborating the Self as a Practice of Freedom
Experience-Books: Altering Truths               

Heterotopic Methods      

Method 1¿Disposing/Transposing the Archive: Criminal Vanishing Acts   
Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur, et mon frère . . .
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems 
Flush: A Biography      

Method 2¿Distracting/Transacting Genealogy: Reading for One¿s Life   
Between the Acts
The English Patient
The History of Sexuality, vol. 1

Method 3¿Dislocating/Transiting Strategics: Reading Biopoetic Assemblages
Foucault 1: The History of Sexuality, vols. 2, 3, 4
Foucault 2: Answering Questions   
Woolf 1: ¿. . . very little persuaded of the truth of anything¿
Woolf 2: Orlando
Woolf 3: The Waves
Ondaatje 1:¿[W]e can¿t rely on only one voice¿
Ondaatje 2: Warlight
Ondaatje 3: Running in the Family
Ondaatje 4: The Cat¿s Table     

Figures       
Selected Bibliography     
Index