This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of
responses to the war-time writing of Paul de Man, responses rarely
in agreement and often sharply contradictory, differing in
approach, affect, and style. "Responses" engages in reading de
Man's early articles, in articulating their multiple contexts, then
and now, and in opening the limitations imposed by rubrics like
"the case of Paul de Man" and "deconstruction politics."
"Responses" brings together the readings and commentaries of
literary critics and historians from the United States and Europe,
with their diverse strategies-historical, rhetorical,
psychological, political. The primary aims of these essays are
reading de Man's texts, from 1940 to 1983, and assessing them in
their political, ideological, and institutional fields.
"Responses" also provides essential historical materials-letters,
documents, personal recollections-on "Le Soir" and "Het Vlaamsche
Land," on the occupation of Belgium, and on the biography of Paul
de Man. An appendix collects the recent reactions of newspapers in
the United States and Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden,
Belgium, and elsewhere) to the discovery of de Man's wartime
writings.
Contributors include Yves Bonnefoy, Cynthia Chase, Else de Bens,
Ortwin de Graef, Jacques Derrida, Rodolphe Gasche, Gerald Graff,
Barbara Johnson, Jeffrey Mehlman, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said,
Marc Shell, Gayatri Spivak, and others.
The collection appears under the auspices of the "Oxford Literary
Review," England's leading theoretical journal for over a
decade.
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