non-abject

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English

Adjective

non-abject (comparative more non-abject, superlative most non-abject)

  1. Alternative form of nonabject.
    • 2012, Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work:
      The abject is considered to be abject because it threatens the non-abject that is, the clean and proper (Kristeva 1982).
    • 2021, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, page 172:
      Rather, abjection is revealing of the processes of exclusion that are central in the making of non-abject – in this case, white European or privileged Afropolitan – subjectivities.
    • 2022, Gregory Bruno, Theory and Practice for Literacy in the Prison Classroom, page 58:
      By occupying non-abject, empowered roles, people in prison ultimately create non-abject existences.