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Secular Blasphemy

Utter(ed) Transgressions Against Names and Fathers in the Postmodern Era

James Haywood Rolling, Jr

Syracuse University

Unnaming the axiomatic constructs of a named identity—that which is thought to be fitting within a given regime of definition—becomes then an act of secular blasphemy, a performance of decanonizing translation that discursively relocates and reinscribes communicated meaning from power, prefix, and prefigurement to perpetual movement. Departing from Homi Bhabha's description of blasphemy as a transgressive act, this article blasphemes the certainty of definition in research writing, illuminating the performance of blasphemy as a source of new social names and the migration of norms and meaning. This article is the third in a trilogy of research forays exploring the intersection of autoethnography, critical race theory, and performance studies. This new research, written to follow up Rolling (2004a, 2004b), is a continuation of the author's effort to establish the efficacy of a poststructural and poetic aesthetic in qualitative research writing.

Key Words: autoethnography • critical race theory • performance studies • arts-based educational research • poetics

This version was published on September 1, 2008

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 6, 926-948 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408318319
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