| The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism Contributor(s): Graff Zivin, Erin (Editor), Kamuf, Peggy (Foreword by), Bennington, Geoffrey (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0823277682 ISBN-13: 9780823277681 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $31.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Jewish Studies - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2017022679 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida's work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms and problems he addresses take on a distinctive meaning: nationalism and cosmopolitanism; spectrality and hauntology; the relation of subjectivity and truth; the university; disciplinarity; institutionality. Perhaps more remarkably, the influence is in a profound sense reciprocal: across his writings, Derrida grapples with the theme of marranismo, the phenomenon of Sephardic crypto-Judaism. Derrida's marranismo is a means of taking apart traditional accounts of identity; a way for Derrida to reflect on the status of the secret; a philosophical nexus where language, nationalism, and truth-telling meet and clash in productive ways; and a way of elaborating a critique of modern biopolitics. It is much more than a simple marker of his work's Hispanic identity, but it is also, and irreducibly, that. The essays collected in The Marrano Specter cut across the grain of traditional Hispanism, but also of the humanistic disciplines broadly conceived. Their vantage point--the theoretical, philosophically inflected critique of disciplinary practices--poses uncomfortable, often unfamiliar questions for both hispanophone studies and the broader theoretical humanities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Graff Zivin, Erin: - Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association) and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008).Williams, Gareth: - Gareth Williams is Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan.Bennington, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.Levinson, Brett: - Brett Levinson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace and Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima's "American Expression."Lezra, Jacques: - Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought; Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (translated into Spanish and Chinese); and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. With Emily Apter and Michael Wood, he is the co-editor of Barbara Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables.Kamuf, Peggy: - Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty. |