The Other Writing

by Kadir, Djelal

• ISBN13: 9781557530325
• ISBN10: 1557530327
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-07-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

Fully conversant with the critical issues of the current cultural debates, Djelal Kadir goes to great pains to articulate and exercise the scruples with which critical reading and cultured scrutiny might proceed without unduly compromising otherness or capitulating the congeniality of reading and writing as civilizing activities.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Otherwise Reading and Writing	p. 1
Orbis Tertius: Colonial Discourse and Emergent Cultures	p. 17
Surviving Theory	p. 31
Short Parable: Borges's Admonition to the Self-seeking Reader	p. 45
Arborescent Paz, Interlineal Poetry	p. 55
Fuentes and the Profane Sublime
History's Apostrophy	p. 73
Parturient Scripture: Sterne Rejoyceings	p. 86
Interstitial Garcia Marquez
Between Milton and Tasso	p. 111
Between Inevitability and Life	p. 123
Scatology, Eschatology, Palimpsest: Vargas Llosa and the History of a Parricide	p. 137
Writing Beyond the Book: Jose Donoso Elsewhere
Ghost House	p. 157
Next Door	p. 167
A Woman's Place: Gendered Histories of the Subaltern	p. 179
Epilogue	p. 203
Notes	p. 207
Index	p. 215
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