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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics 53 Levinas in Latin America 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham¿s Double Bind 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump 153 Acknowledgments 159 Notes 163 Bibliography 177 Index 187
Introduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature 1 Part I. Anarchaeologies Misunderstanding Literature 21 Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism 31 Part II. The Ethical Turn Ethics against Politics 53 Levinas in Latin America 60 Part III. Violent Ethics Abraham¿s Double Bind 77 Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors 89 Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature The Metapolitics of Allegory 107 The Aesthetics and Politics of Error 121 Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity Toward a Passive University 139 Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump 153 Acknowledgments 159 Notes 163 Bibliography 177 Index 187
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