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NDiaye's Intelligent Subjects
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 2, Summer 2013
- pp. 29-41
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0021
- Article
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In this article, I explore some of the key forms of intelligence, pseudo-intelligence, and stupidity depicted in the texts of Marie NDiaye. Arguing that the cerebral brilliance of many of NDiaye’s earlier protagonists functioned as a symptom of their emotional ‘deadness’ I go on to analyze the workings of an emerging blueprint for relationality and psychic ‘aliveness.’