Introduction: (B)ordering principles: negotiating the parameters -- Part 1: Ghosts in the archive: negotiating historicity and survivance with Diana Taylor and Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer. En-active textuality -- Native American revenance -- Part 2 : Being-two with the other: negotiating relationality and mimicry with Luce Irigaray's thought and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée. Dia-logical caress -- Moving the spirit-heart -- Part 3: Poetic dwelling in the borders: negotiating attunement and sensuousness with Martin Heidegger and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Ab-usive deviation -- Counterturning the life-wheel -- Part 4: Precarious In-Dividuality and the Other: negotiating simulation and presence with Jean Baudrillard and Richard Powers's Plowing the dark. Trans-figuring technology -- The view from now here.
Summary:
"Presents an alternative mode of reading fictional texts--"reading other-wise"--in the context of North American literature that advocates a presencing of otherness"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
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