Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin (English) Hardcover B

Description: Anarchaeologies by Erin Graff Zivin How do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art.Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Working specifically with art, film, and literature from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Jose Saer, Ricardo Piglia, Cesar Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional Errorista), Graff Zivin allows such thinkers as Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, and Ranciere to be inflected by Latin American cultural production. Through these acts of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure, such ethical and political concepts as identification and recognition, decision and event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible, erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics, however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice. Back Cover "Erin Graff Zivin is one of the most accomplished and original scholars in the fields of Latin American literature and Critical Theory today. Anarchaeologies is an extraordinarily relevant theoretical intervention, that argues in favor of a marrano , anarchaeological reading practice invested in guarding and unsettling the ethical demands posed onto us by a wide array of textual formations through its errors, secrets, misunderstandings, zones of opacity, and blind spots. It is also a highly enjoyable read: a book that is well written and argued in spite of the considerable complexity and sophistication of its philosophical arguments"--Mariano Siskind, Harvard University " Anarchaeologies offers inventive and illuminating readings of Latin American and European fiction, film, philosophy, and criticism; the selection of sources is interesting and interdisciplinary, an appealing combination of genres and modes. The book is both highly readable and highly rewarding."--Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading : reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art. Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Through these acts of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, ethical and political concepts such as identification and recognition, decision and event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible, erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics, however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice. Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Author Biography Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association) and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008). Table of Contents Introduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1Part I. AnarchaeologiesMisunderstanding Literature | 21Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31Part II. The Ethical TurnEthics against Politics | 53Levinas in Latin America | 60Part III. Violent EthicsAbrahams Double Bind | 77Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89Part IV. Political Thinking after LiteratureThe Metapolitics of Allegory | 107The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121Part V. Exposure and IndisciplinarityToward a Passive University | 139Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153Acknowledgments | 159Notes | 163Bibliography | 177Index | 187 Review Anarchaeologies offers inventive and illuminating readings of Latin American and European fiction, film, philosophy, and criticism; the selection of sources is interesting and interdisciplinary, an appealing combination of genres and modes. The book is both highly readable and highly rewarding.---Rei Terada, University of California, IrvineErin Graff Zivin is one of the most accomplished and original scholars in the fields of Latin American literature and Critical Theory today. Anarchaeologies is an extraordinarily relevant theoretical intervention, that argues in favor of a marrano, anarchaeological reading practice invested in guarding and unsettling the ethical demands posed onto us by a wide array of textual formations through its errors, secrets, misunderstandings, zones of opacity, and blind spots. It is also a highly enjoyable read: a book that is well written and argued in spite of the considerable complexity and sophistication of its philosophical arguments.---Mariano Siskind, Harvard University Review Quote Erin Graff Zivin is one of the most accomplished and original scholars in the fields of Latin American literature and Critical Theory today. Anarchaeologies is an extraordinarily relevant theoretical intervention, that argues in favor of a marrano , anarchaeological reading practice invested in guarding and unsettling the ethical demands posed onto us by a wide array of textual formations through its errors, secrets, misunderstandings, zones of opacity, and blind spots. It is also a highly enjoyable read: a book that is well written and argued in spite of the considerable complexity and sophistication of its philosophical arguments. ---Mariano Siskind, Harvard University Competing Titles Beasley-Murray, Posthegemony Felski, The Limits of Critique Robbins, The Beneficiary Terada, Looking Away Siskind, Cosmopolitan Desires Fordham: Lezra, Wild Materialism Lloyd, Under Representation Rodriguez Matos, Writing of the Formless Khalip, Last Things Acosta, Thresholds of Illiteracy Graff Zivin, The Marrano Specter Feature A clear and well-written account of complex theoretical material. Description for Sales People A clear and well-written account of complex theoretical material. Details ISBN0823286827 Author Erin Graff Zivin Pages 192 Publisher Fordham University Press Series Lit Z Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823286827 ISBN-13 9780823286829 Format Hardcover Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Reading as Misreading Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 111.85 Publication Date 2020-01-07 Short Title Anarchaeologies Language English UK Release Date 2020-01-07 AU Release Date 2020-01-07 NZ Release Date 2020-01-07 US Release Date 2020-01-07 Illustrations 12 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131534330;

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