![]() ![]() Adopting a transnational perspective, this dissertation examines a culturally diverse corpus of contemporary works, including postmodern American fiction, postcolonial African novels, and Taiwanese Second Wave cinema. Consequently, because desire is fluid and unpredictable, it produces heterogeneous and nomadic forms of subjectivity that undermine essentialist notions of cultural difference and specificity. Inspired by Maurice Blanchot's 'The Gaze of Orpheus,' which links desire to errancy and 'errance' (the French for wandering) and situates them as constitutive artistic forces, the guiding hypothesis is that the aesthetic experience is channeled via the mechanics of language and the gaze by the 'errancies of desire'-the wanderings and errs of the desiring subject. This dissertation is concerned with the role of desire in the aesthetic experience more specifically, it focuses on the ways in which we project and respond affectively to a work of art as formative processes of subjectivity.
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