How many deaths? Auto-bio-graphy as death-writing

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dc.contributor.authorKotásek, Miroslavcs
dc.coverage.issue1cs
dc.coverage.volume16cs
dc.date.issued2024-04-08cs
dc.description.abstractThe article concerns various aspects of autobiography as they have been introduced by Jacques Derrida, who himself used the term “autobiographical” to refer to his philosophical writing. Unlike most scholars who stress the link between autobiography and philosophy in Derrida’s writing the article attempts to link it primarily to the “literary”. In this endeavour, most attention is paid to the numerous metamorphoses in which “death” structures and haunts (auto)biographies and our thinking about the genre. Here, the greatest influence, apart from Derrida, was Maurice Blanchot. “Death” and negativity figure at many levels of autobiography, where, unlike in a fictional narrative, they cannot be suspended easily: they can be found in the question about the very usage of language and its relation to the autobiographer, in the construction of the “I”, and in the medial situation of the literary. The article concludes by suggesting a potential transformation of the autobiographical practice brought about by techno-cultural changes and developments regarding both the “archive” and “media”, which are transforming the status of memory, legacy, and the past.en
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dc.format.extent109-119cs
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dc.identifier.citationWorld Literature Studies. 2024, vol. 16, issue 1, p. 109-119.en
dc.identifier.doi10.31577/WLS.2024.16.1.8cs
dc.identifier.issn1337-9275cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0784-3153cs
dc.identifier.other188589cs
dc.identifier.scopus55844066200cs
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11012/249910
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dc.publisherInstitute of World Literature, Slovak Academy od Sciencescs
dc.relation.ispartofWorld Literature Studiescs
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalcs
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dc.subjectAutobiographyen
dc.subjectDeathen
dc.subjectJacques Derridaen
dc.subjectMediaen
dc.subjectSpectralityen
dc.titleHow many deaths? Auto-bio-graphy as death-writingen
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dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
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sync.item.insts2025.02.20 08:42:34en
sync.item.modts2025.02.18 13:33:31en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií. Ústav jazykůcs
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