How Long to Read Catastrophic Historicism

How Long Does it Take to Read Catastrophic Historicism?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 56 minutes to read Catastrophic Historicism by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914–53), Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer—a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza-de Jesús shows that historicism grounds historical objectivity in the historian’s capacity to compose totalizing narratives that domesticate the contingency of the past. While critiques of historicism as a realism leave untouched the sovereignty of the historian, the book insists that reading the text of history requires an attunement to danger—a modality that interrupts historicism by infusing the past with a contingency that evades total appropriation. After desedimenting the monumental tradition that has reduced de Burgos to a totemic figure, Catastrophic Historicism reads the poet’s first collection, Poema en 20 surcos (1938). Mendoza-de Jesús argues that the historicity of Poema crystallizes in the lyrical speaker’s self-institution as an embodied ipseity, which requires producing racialized/gendered allegorical figures—the bearers of an abject flesh—that lack any ontological resistance to modern alienation. Rather than treating de Burgos’s poetics of selfhood as the ideal image of Puerto Rican sovereignty, Mendoza-de Jesús endangers this idealization by drawing attention to the abjection that sustains our attachments to ipseity as the form of a truly sovereign life. In this way, Catastrophic Historicism not only resets the terms of ongoing critiques of historicism in the humanities—it also intervenes in Puerto Rican historicity for the sake of its transformation.

How long is Catastrophic Historicism?

Catastrophic Historicism by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús is 347 pages long, and a total of 89,179 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 109% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Catastrophic Historicism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 7 minutes to read Catastrophic Historicism aloud.

What Reading Level is Catastrophic Historicism?

Catastrophic Historicism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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