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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Myers, Robin, 1987- translator.

Series:

Critical Mexican studies.

Critical Mexican studies

Standardized Title:

Muertos indóciles. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Appropriation (Arts).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]

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 Díaz 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

My Journey through Transkrit

Disappropriation

Uses of the Archive

Undead Authors

Brief Missives from Pompeii

Writing against Violence

On Alert

Let's Be Stubborn

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826501233

0826501230

9780826501219

0826501214

OCLC:

1161996120