The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation Rivera Garza Cristina
The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation Rivera Garza Cristina Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays in this…
Specifikacia The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation Rivera Garza Cristina
The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation Rivera Garza Cristina
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. Writers borrow from the practitioners of a language, entering in a debt relationship that can only be covered by ushering the Debunking the position of the author as the center of analysis, Cristina Rivera Garza argues for the communality--a term used by anthropologist Floriberto D az 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.
Restless Dead
Restless Dead
The Restless Girls
The Restless Flame
The Restless Kings
Always Young and Restless
Living and the Dead
Living and the Dead
The Sleeping and the Dead