@article{oai:nitech.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001574, author = {Essertier, Joseph}, journal = {New Directions}, month = {Mar}, note = {The fllowing paper examines the question of what rolelanguage plays in the central arguments about power in four books: On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault; Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, and Domination and the Arts of Resistance by James C. Scott. I explore how language relates to theories of domination ranging from Nietsche's critique of Judeo-Christian ethical thought, to Foucault's analysis of incarcerating modernity, to the "power of naming," to Fanon on the double-edged sword of the colonizer's language for the colonized who needs to communicate, and finally, to the subversion of the "public transcript" by dominated groups illuminated by Scott., application/pdf}, pages = {31--53}, title = {The Role of Language in Four Studies on Power and Resistance}, volume = {31}, year = {2013} }