Activist advocacy and one’s literary figures can be at odds without contradiction.

Evidence

Thus the figures of Mahasweta’s fiction are at odds with the project of access to national constitutional agency for the tribal and the outcaste upon which Mahasweta is herself actively bent. This is not a contradiction, but rather the critical rapport sans rapport of which I spoke earlier. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1310

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Critical rapport sans rapport’ — relationship without relationship — is a Spivakian mechanism for holding non-collapsing tension, relevant to the reader’s bind.
• XREF: The rapport sans rapport concept is a candidate for ‘loosening the bind without collapse’ in the reader’s empirical survey. — connects to: The same literary form can either contest or reinforce hegemonic narratives — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 18; A successful artwork embodies contradictions without falsely resolving them — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 51; Literature formally resolves, in the imaginary, social contradictions that cannot be resolved in reality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 740

Broader Connections

• The same literary form can either contest or reinforce hegemonic narratives #expands (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 18
• A successful artwork embodies contradictions without falsely resolving them #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 51
• Literature formally resolves, in the imaginary, social contradictions that cannot be resolved in reality #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 740