Witnessing beyond the Human: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina

Author:   Kate Jenckes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438465715


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 May 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kate Jenckes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781438465715


ISBN 10:   1438465718
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Messianicity beyond Militant Messianism: Apostrophe and Survival in Juan Gelman's Poetry 2. Myopic Witnessing and the Intermittent Possibilities of Community in Sergio Chejfec's Los planetas and Boca de lobo 3. Living and Writing in the Deserts of Modernity: Roberto Bolano and the Alter-immunological Potential of Literature 4. Image and Alterity Beyond the Sepulture of the Human: Eugenio Dittborn's Photocollages Conclusion Works Cited & Bibliography Notes Index

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"""Witnessing beyond the Human is nourished by a myriad of different philosophical, theoretical, literary, and visual artistic sources. Jenckes's comparatist perspective is on full display, as is her extensive knowledge of the Argentinian and Chilean political, intellectual, and cultural scene. The book engages in a sustained and profound reflection on, and with, the thought of Jacques Derrida—in a way that is not typical in our field."" — Revista de Estudios Hispánicos ""Kate Jenckes's Witnessing beyond the Human investigates the political implications of decentering the human subject as a coherent and stable entity … The conclusions of Jenckes's study are useful for any scholar interested in the posthumanities: her articulation of Chefjec's myopic practice of writing as akin to the exposure to the unknown, or account of life, following Gelman, as more than an individual self-contained biological self, as that which contains difference, rather than effacing it."" — Chasqui"


Witnessing beyond the Human is nourished by a myriad of different philosophical, theoretical, literary, and visual artistic sources. Jenckes's comparatist perspective is on full display, as is her extensive knowledge of the Argentinian and Chilean political, intellectual, and cultural scene. The book engages in a sustained and profound reflection on, and with, the thought of Jacques Derrida-in a way that is not typical in our field. - Revista de Estudios Hispanicos Kate Jenckes's Witnessing beyond the Human investigates the political implications of decentering the human subject as a coherent and stable entity ... The conclusions of Jenckes's study are useful for any scholar interested in the posthumanities: her articulation of Chefjec's myopic practice of writing as akin to the exposure to the unknown, or account of life, following Gelman, as more than an individual self-contained biological self, as that which contains difference, rather than effacing it. - Chasqui


""Witnessing beyond the Human is nourished by a myriad of different philosophical, theoretical, literary, and visual artistic sources. Jenckes's comparatist perspective is on full display, as is her extensive knowledge of the Argentinian and Chilean political, intellectual, and cultural scene. The book engages in a sustained and profound reflection on, and with, the thought of Jacques Derrida—in a way that is not typical in our field."" — Revista de Estudios Hispánicos ""Kate Jenckes's Witnessing beyond the Human investigates the political implications of decentering the human subject as a coherent and stable entity The conclusions of Jenckes's study are useful for any scholar interested in the posthumanities: her articulation of Chefjec's myopic practice of writing as akin to the exposure to the unknown, or account of life, following Gelman, as more than an individual self-contained biological self, as that which contains difference, rather than effacing it."" — Chasqui


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Kate Jenckes is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History, also published by SUNY Press.

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