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Borges Between Singularity and Sovereignty

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kate JenckesSeries:Suny Series, Literature... in TheoryPublish date:2/1/2026Pages:202
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855805406UPC:9798855805406Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Caribbean & Latin American, MovementsBook Topic:20th Century, DeconstructionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCS0TNV68V

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals of mastery to historical instances of fascism.

Jorge Luis Borges was one of the principal writers of the twentieth century to bring literature to bear on the relationship between the political and the philosophical. Although often regarded as a master of the abstract and universal,...

Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855805406UPC:9798855805406Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Caribbean & Latin American, MovementsBook Topic:20th Century, DeconstructionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCS0TNV68V

Kate Jenckes is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History and Witnessing beyond the Human: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina, both published by SUNY Press.


Publisher: State University of New York Press

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