Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading

Erin Graff Zivin

Published by Fordham University Press 2020

Anarchaeologies

Reading as Misreading

Erin Graff Zivin

In the series Lit Z

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823286843

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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.

A clear and well-written account of complex theoretical material.

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Graff Zivin Erin :

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).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).

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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.

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: ethical and political thinking after literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Anarchaeologies
Misunderstanding literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Toward an anarchaeological latinamericanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part II. The ethical turn
Ethics against politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Levinas in Latin America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Part III. Violent ethics
Abraham’s double bind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Untimely ethics: deconstruction and its precursors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part IV. Political thinking after literature
The metapolitics of allegory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The aesthetics and politics of error Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Part V. Exposure and indisciplinarity
Toward a passive university Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Afterword: Truth and error in the age of trump Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Other: 12
Keywords: Latin American studies; Argentinian literature; deconstruction; continental philosophy; ethics; politics; Jorge Luis Borges; César Aira; Ricardo Piglia; Albertina Carri; Jacques Derrida; Emmanuel Levinas; Paul de Man

eBook

Published: January 7, 2020
ISBN: 9780823286843