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Chronicle of Separation : On Deconstruction’s Disillusioned Love / Michal Ben-Naftali.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben-Naftali, Michal, Author.
- Series:
- IDIOM (New York, N.Y.)
- Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
- Standardized Title:
- Kroniḳah shel peredah. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deconstruction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Gender identity.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- EPUB
- Summary:
- A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter as manifested in anorexia, passion between two women, love after separation and in mourning, the tension between one’s self and the internalized other. Traversing each of these investigations, Chronicle of Separation takes up Derrida’s Memoires for Paul de Man and The Post Card, Lillian Hellman’s famed friendship with a woman named Julia, and adaptations of the biblical Book of Ruth. Above all, it is a treatise on the love of theory in the name of poetry, a passionate book on love and friendship.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: Friendship, Unauthorized
- Preface
- 1 From Absolute Love to the Politics of Friendship
- 2 Let’s Show Our (Post) Cards
- 3 Julia
- 4 “And She Did Eat and Was Sufficed and Left”: Deconstruction as an Anorexic Perspective
- 5 The Book of Ruth
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6694-X
- 0-8232-6583-8
- 0-8232-6582-X
- OCLC:
- 906575722
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