Free Download Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, "Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously "
English | ISBN: 1531505643 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914-53), Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer―a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza-de Jesús shows that historicism grounds historical objectivity in the historian’s capacity to compose totalizing narratives that domesticate the contingency of the past. While critiques of historicism as a realism leave untouched the sovereignty of the historian, the book insists that reading the text of history requires an attunement to danger―a modality that interrupts historicism by infusing the past with a contingency that evades total appropriation.
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