Restless Dead (eBook)

Necrowriting and Disappropriation

Cristina Rivera Garza (Autor)

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2020
188 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0123-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays in this book present a radical critique against strategies of literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, components of the writing process. Debunking the position of the author as the center of analysis, Cristina Rivera Garza argues for the communalitya term used by anthropologist Floriberto Daz to describe modes of life of Indigenous peoples of Oaxaca based on notions of collaborative laborpermeating all writing processes. Disappropriating is a political operation at the core of projects acknowledging, both at ethical and aesthetic levels, that writers always work with materials that are not their own. Writers borrow from the practitioners of a language, entering in a debt relationship that can only be covered by ushering the text back to the communities from which it grew. In a world rife with violence, where the experiences of many are erased by pillage and extraction, writing among and for the dead is a form of necrowriting that may well become a life-affirming act of decolonization and resistance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Mexican Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Mexican Studies
• Übersetzer: Robin Myers
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics and Politics • Appropriation • Borders • communality • Community • Contemporary poetry • Creative Writing • cross-genre • Debt and writing • disappropriation • Ethics and writing • Exophonic writing • Experimental Writing • Floriberto Diaz • Labor and writing • Latin American writing • Materials and materiality • Migratory writing • Necrowriting • Planetary writing • Politics and writing • Post-autonomous literatures • Translation • Twitter • Violence and writing • Women’s writing • Workshops • Writing in Spanish in the United States
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0123-0 / 0826501230
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0123-3 / 9780826501233