The Restless Dead

Necrowriting and Disappropriation

Cristina Rivera Garza (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2020
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0121-9 (ISBN)

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Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays of 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 center of analysis, Cristina Rivera Garza argues for the communality-a term used by anthropologist Floriberto DÍaz to describe modes of life of indigenous peoples of Oaxaca based on notions of collaborative labor-permeating 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 in which it grew. In an increasingly violent world, where the experiences of many are erased by pillage and extraction, writing among and for the dead is a form of necrowriting that may as well become a life-affirming act of decolonization and resistance.

Author, translator, and critic Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of six novels, three of which have been translated into English: No One Will See Me Cry, The Iliac Crest, and The Taiga Syndrome. She is the founder of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish and distinguished professor at the University of Houston.

Gratulabundus
Introduction: Writing and Necropolitics
Undead Authors: The Autobiographical and David Markson (1927-2010)
Communalist Writings
Disappropriation Forward: Geological Writings, 'Shareng,' and a New Assembly of Reader-Practitioners
Uses of the Archive: From The Historical Novel to Documentary Writing
My Journey through Transkrit: Planetary, Sporadic, Exphonic
Brief Missives from Pompeii: The Production of Present
The Green Camera: Brief Vistas from Spanish-Speaking Writers at the PeriÓdico De PoesÍa
Writing as a Practice of Communality against Violence
Let's Be Stubborn: On Receiving the 2017 Excelencia En Las Letras JosÉ Emilio Pacheco Award

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Critical Mexican Studies
Verlagsort	Tennessee
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 229 mm
Gewicht	275 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8265-0121-4 / 0826501214
ISBN-13	978-0-8265-0121-9 / 9780826501219
Zustand	Neuware