Barbara Johnson Collective

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson's legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditionsAcross an archive of essays on abortion and race, Mallarmé and Melville, feminist philosophy, rhetorical device, and pedagogical method, Barbara Johnson built a legacy of thought whose energies reverberate into the present. This collected volume gathers writers and critics from a range of North American higher educational settings to engage with this essential but still often underappreciated critic in a time of renewed and deepening crisis.In Zoom meetings and shared essays, across a virtualized map of today's academic and para-academic worlds, the group assessed how the rolling catastrophes of late neoliberalism continue to stage the sort of analogy Johnson herself would highlight between patriarchy, capitalism, ecocide, and other forms of structural violence. Emerging from that assemblage, this experimental collection tracks Johnson's efforts to link literary reading with concrete matters of personhood and care at a moment when the very system of higher education that enabled Johnson's work in the 1980s and 1990s faces existential threat. The frozen record of a live experience, the book is an impure procedure, tangled in the idiom of its own unfolding: a temporary culmination of an ongoing collaborative undertaking that will always remain unfinished.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-16
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9798899480669

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Devin M. Garofalo is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the editor of Victorian Poetry.Nathan K. Hensley is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author, most recently, of Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse.

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"As the brilliant contributors to this shimmering compendium make clear: Barbara Johnson speaks to and for us—still. To read this team's essays is to see Johnson-inspired and -driven deconstructive literary reading deftly, defiantly, and decisively connect with our most pressing political and social issues. This collection is simply vital. A must-read." —Gregory Jones-Katz, Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt"Barbara Johnson's lapidary essays on rhetoric and poetry might not seem the most obvious weapons in an attack on the degradation of democracy, education, and transgender rights. But the authors of The Barbara Johnson Collective, drawing on the energy of collaboration, have made a passionate and persuasive case. This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever." —Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresIntroduction: Barbara Johnson StillDevin M. Garofalo and Nathan K. Hensley Part I: Personhood And Its OthersChapter 1: Speaking, Non-BinarilySarah Dowling Chapter 2: Monster / Self / DobbsMargaret Ronda Chapter 3: On Critical Hauntings: Three MovementsRachel Feder Rereading 1: Put Another WayRia Banerjee, Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Nathan K. Hensley Part II: Figure In the Domain of PraxisChapter 4: Barbara Johnson, Sylvia Wynter, And AnthropomorphosisDevin M. Garofalo Chapter 5: Reading WithBrian Glavey Chapter 6: Metaphor, Metonymy, And Style; or, Barbara Johnson's Queer RelationsCara L. Lewis Chapter 7: DecidabilityJohanna Winant Rereading 2: Never NowSarah Dowling, Rachel Feder, Margaret Ronda Part III: Pedagogies Of SurpriseChapter 8: Totality In/And DeconstructionKatarzyna Bartoszyńska Chapter 9: The Obverse of KnowledgeNathan K. Hensley Chapter 10: Barbara Johnson And Virginia Woolf, Or Reading Within InstitutionsRia Banerjee Rereading 3: On Turning and Being TurnedDevin M. Garofalo, Brian Glavey, Cara Lewis, Johanna Winant Postscript: Is Thinking Still for Me?Erin Spampinato List of Contributors