...Sharon Marcus Undead texts are works that help to found fields only to find themselves eventually rejected by specialists and embraced by novices. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is an exemplary Undead text: hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1949, dismissed by many scholars...

... path to academic acceptance. Such was the case with Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (Marcus). Still others became central to a discipline’s sense of itself only by being rejected, at least for a time, as in the case of Bruno Snell’s The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European...

... and is constituted more as a domain of inquiry than a field or discipline. Much postcolonial thought has been invested in psychoanalytic and deconstructive thought; has been attentive to the theorists of decolonization in French, from Jean-­Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon to Albert Memmi, Simone de Beauvoir...

... of D/s . Unpublished ms., Department of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Beauvoir, Simone de. 1989 . The second sex . New York: Vintage. Chatterjee, Partha. 1988 . More on modes of power and the peasantry. In Selected subaltern studies , edited by Ranajit Guha and Gayatri...

... of scientific progress (411). Science does not advance through steady accumulations of knowledge. It is an agonistic field marked by crisis, rupture, paradigm shift. Even Undead texts birth their own assassins. As Sharon Marcus’s look at Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) reminds us, books may...

... appeared in June 1959 and was immediately banned, documented the intimate technolo- gies of brutal indignities that French soldiers inflicted on Algerian women and men.6 Pierre Bourdieu was writing about Algerian workers and “the colonial system” throughout the early 1960s.7 Simone de Beauvoir...

... of the knowledge produced and disseminated in the Hexagon (consistently masked by the exportation of the works of thinkers like Jean-­Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, or Pierre Bourdieu), and cultural narcissism and conceit have all contributed...