{"product_id":"archival-afterlives-laura-hughes-9780810146273","title":"Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA capacious analysis of a legendary intellectual friendship and the material legacies it left behind\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the course of their decades-long friendship, Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida assembled overlapping archives of written experiments and exchanges that document a shared interest in their literary afterlives. In this incisive account, Laura Hughes shows how pushing against the limits of writing and of life itself means not only imagining but manifesting a community of future readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e examines the embodied nature of literary creation, taking letters, fragments, notes, and other ephemera as objects of critical analysis and care. Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined archival materials, Hughes traces critical connections between Cixous and Derrida, between the theoretical and the autobiographical, and between life writing and its limits. In putting deconstruction into dialogue with new material analyses and archive studies, \u003ci\u003eArchival Afterlives \u003c\/i\u003epositions this historical and intellectual relationship as a lens through which to reexamine the legacy of critical theory itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810146274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810146273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Laura Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721403748607,"sku":"9780810146273","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71740c85-97a3-4d03-a3d0-62058bb004c2.jpg?v=1742752767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/archival-afterlives-laura-hughes-9780810146273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}