Shared selves : Latinx memoir and ethical alternatives to humanism /

"Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explo...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Bost, Suzanne (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Serie:Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctvqmp2kp
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction : beyond the self
  • Writing Latinx memoir : fragmented lives, precarious boundaries
  • Community : John Rechy, depersonalization, and queer selves
  • Webs : Aurora Levins Morales's animal, vegetable, and digital ecologies
  • Life : the Gloria E. Anzaldúa papers and other-than-humanist ontologies
  • Conclusion: Selflessness?