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OverviewA capacious analysis of a legendary intellectual friendship and the material legacies it left behind Over the course of their decades-long friendship, Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida assembled overlapping archives of written experiments and exchanges that document a shared interest in their literary afterlives. In this incisive account, Laura Hughes shows how pushing against the limits of writing and of life itself means not only imagining but manifesting a community of future readers. Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship examines the embodied nature of literary creation, taking letters, fragments, notes, and other ephemera as objects of critical analysis and care. Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined archival materials, Hughes traces critical connections between Cixous and Derrida, between the theoretical and the autobiographical, and between life writing and its limits. In putting deconstruction into dialogue with new material analyses and archive studies, Archival Afterlives positions this historical and intellectual relationship as a lens through which to reexamine the legacy of critical theory itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura HughesPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780810146280ISBN 10: 0810146282 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 30 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews“This is without a doubt the most sustained study of Cixous and Derrida’s literary relationship. Laura Hughes pulls her reader into the process of working with their archival materials, drawing appropriately on their own reflections but also forging a strikingly original path.” - Peggy Kamuf, author of To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida “This is without a doubt the most sustained study of Cixous and Derrida’s literary relationship. Laura Hughes pulls her reader into the process of working with their archival materials, drawing appropriately on their own reflections but also forging a strikingly original path.” - Peggy Kamuf, author of To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida Author InformationLaura Hughes is an independent scholar and founding co-owner of Basket Books & Art, an independent bookstore and art gallery in Houston. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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