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The restless dead : necrowriting and disappropriation / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Robin Myers.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Critical Mexican studiesPublisher: Nashville, Tennesse : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]Description: xi, 178 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826501240
  • 9780826501233
Uniform titles:
  • Muertos ind�ociles. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: The restless deadDDC classification:
  • 808.02 23 R621
Online resources:
Contents:
My Journey through Transkrit: Planetary, Sporadic, Exphonic -- Disappropriation: Writing with and for the Dead -- Uses of the Archive: From the Historical Novel to Documentary Writing -- Undead Authors: The Autobiographical and David Markson (1927-2010) -- Brief Missives from Pompeii: The Production of Present -- Writing against Violence: Make No Mistake: This Letter Is All Business -- On Alert: Writing in Spanish in the United States Today -- Let's Be Stubborn.
Summary: "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 communality-a term used by anthropologist Floriberto D�iaz 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 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"--
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My Journey through Transkrit: Planetary, Sporadic, Exphonic -- Disappropriation: Writing with and for the Dead -- Uses of the Archive: From the Historical Novel to Documentary Writing -- Undead Authors: The Autobiographical and David Markson (1927-2010) -- Brief Missives from Pompeii: The Production of Present -- Writing against Violence: Make No Mistake: This Letter Is All Business -- On Alert: Writing in Spanish in the United States Today -- Let's Be Stubborn.

"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 communality-a term used by anthropologist Floriberto D�iaz 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 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"--

Translated from the original Spanish into English.

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