Chronicle of Separation: On Deconstruction's Disillusioned Love
Michal Ben-Naftali
Abstract
A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, this book provides a series of disparate readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, the book provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter as manifested in anorexia, passion between two women, love after separation and in mourning, and the tension between one's self and the internalized other. Traversing each of these investigations, ... More
Keywords: Jacques Derrida, deconstruction, women, interpersonal relationships, mother, daughter, teacher, Lillian Hellman, Book of Ruth, poetry
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823265794 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823265794.001.0001 |
