The Restless Dead : Necrowriting and Disappropriation EPUB
by Cristina Rivera Garza
Part of the Critical Mexican Studies series
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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.
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- Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2020
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:188 pages
- Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2020
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- ISBN:9780826501233
