This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the
world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees
and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of
political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have
precariously occupied since the end of World War II-and especially
after 9/11- it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that
trace the author's journey from his experience as a prisoner of war
in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February
1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual
vocation adequate to the dislocating epiphany he experienced in
bearing witness to these traumatising events. Having subsequently
lost faith in the logic of belonging perpetuated by the
nation-state, Spanos charts how he began to look in the rubble of
that zero zone for an alternative way of belonging: one in which
the old binary -whose imperative was based on the violence of the
Friend/enemy opposition- was replaced by a paradoxical loving
strife that enriched rather than negated the potential of each
side. The chapters in this book trace this errant vocational
itinerary, from the author's early undergraduate engagement with
Kierkegaard and Heidegger to Cornel West, moving from that
disclosive occasion in the zero zone to this present moment.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination |
| Release date: |
July 2018 |
| First published: |
2016 |
| Authors: |
William V. Spanos
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
140 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-319-83846-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary theory
|
| LSN: |
3-319-83846-6 |
| Barcode: |
9783319838465 |
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