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June 2016, Volume 28

Movement from the Edge of Knowledge: Literary Secrecy between Jacques Derrida and Toni Morrison

By Hsiu-chuan LEE
This essay reads Jacques Derrida and Toni Morrison side by side, with a view to meditating on the meaning (or non-meaning) of the secret, and exploring literature's symbiotic relationship with secrecy. Reading a series of Derrida's and Morrison's works related to the topic of "the secret," which include Derrida's "Responding to/Answering for: The Secret" (1991b), "Passions: 'An Oblique Offering'" (1992) and "Literature in Secret" (1999b); and Morrison's "A Knowing So Deep" (1985), Playing in the Dark (1992), her Nobel Lecture in Literature (1993) and "The Future of Time" (1996), I argue that secrecy does not pose an epistemic obstacle or hermeneutic limit to either Morrison or Derrida. Rather, comparing the process of literary creation to "playing in the dark," Morrison finds in the darkness of the secret a threshold time-space of literary "becoming," while Derrida explicitly advocates the idea that literature is "in place of the secret" or literature "responds to the secret" in order to drive forward a future dimension of avenir. Derrida is concerned about a secret that hides nothing, a secret without depth. For him, literature is capable of keeping (the life of) the secret not because literature has to conceal knowledge but because "literarity" makes literature as unfathomable and elusive as the secret in relationship to meaning. Contentions like these find strong resonance in Morrison's works. Indeed, both Morrison and Derrida seek in "the secret" the force to cut open existing cognitive systems; both also consider literary practices valuable as long as these practices are able to ride on the cognitive opening of the secret for generating movement from the edge of knowledge.

In the Name of Love In the Name of Love: Decoding the Secret in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture

By Yu-chen Lin
Adopting psychoanalysis in conjunction with affect theory, this tri-part essay explores the decoding of secrets in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture. Part one engages Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's notion of "the transgenerational phantom" and Sarah Ahmed's theory of national love to interpret Roseanne's incarceration in an asylum, a social tomb of some kind, since she is deemed incapable of reciprocating the love of the nation because of her family background and her beauty, and is thus regarded as a social disgrace. Part two is devoted to Dr. Grene's trauma caused by the failure of his love, as is revealed in the blind spots in his assessment of Roseanne's sanity. Although he regains his love for life through Roseanne's inspiration, this happy ending is achieved at the cost of plausibility. This problem leads to a reconsideration of Barry's agenda in Part Three. This author argues that, in resisting national love through personal love, Barry is exercising a politics of love at the expense of the ethical dimension of memory.

World Literature or Literature as Worlding Project

By Shu-li CHANG
Literary study is undergoing a silent revolution, with its objectives, subjects, approaches being challenged and redefined. This article, in four different sections, reviews and assesses these changes to evaluate the impacts they have made on the literary studies in Taiwan. In Section one, I try to comprehend the recent turn taken by American comparatists and Americanists towards either World Literature or Transnationalism as an effort simply to resolve disciplinary crises. In Section two, I review the propositions made by postcolonial scholars, specifically Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, as they embraced or proposed such concepts as worldliness, the "worldly," the "planetary" in an attempt to flesh out their collective desire to put into practice an ethical vision of the aporetic "yet-to-come." With this notion of the "yet-to-come" in mind, I then analyze, in the final section, the ambivalence embedded within the rhetorical structure of two contemporary novels of (un)growth to substantiate my argument that the recent turn towards "world literature" is about conjuring a world that is yet-to-come, uncertain and hesitant as it is, through a "worlding" project in the sense defined by Spivak. Less canon-making than a practice of close reading, the "worlding" of literary studies demands us to read, translate, and retranscribe those difficult moments in the text closely and attentively so that, through this encounter with the "double-bind" in which aesthetics and politics are trapped, we may come to recognize ourselves otherwise, while bring into presence a newness of the world.

Echo Chamber

By Peng YI

To Compare, or to Worlding? Whither Will Literature Be?

By Francis K. H. SO

After-thoughts: Placing Literature in the Contemporary

By Chun-yen CHEN
What many of us consider to be the contemporary crisis of literary studies is to a significant extent precipitated by the prevailing managerial mechanism in academia undergirded by neoliberalism, on the one hand, and the sweeping impacts of digital technologies, on the other hand. These two in effect operate via a similar logic: the logic of immediacy. We may even argue that underlying popular propositions about literary studies today, such as world literature, is in a sense this obsession with immediacy: obsession with gaining an effective grasp of what is far away and unfamiliar. Premised on this observation, this article suggests that to ponder the exigency of literary scholarship today is to think a temporality that works differently from the regime of immediacy. Specifically the article proposes to draw on the Agambenian conception of contemporaneity and the Benjaminian notion of citability, both in the sense of allowing meaning of the contemporary to arrive later, a delay that can nevertheless mediate our self-reflection and self-critique in the face of the lure of immediacy. Whereas propositions like world literature are predicated on positivistic parameters, an ethos of delayed after-thought, the article contends, stands as a more progressive register by which to ponder the valence of literary studies in our times──an ethos the article would like to regard as the thrust of comparative literature.

"After-thoughts: The Place of Literature in the Contemporary": Some Scatter Thoughts

By Shu-li CHANG

Orientation and Asian Literature: A Conversation with Rob Wilson

By C. Derick VARN

Reflections on Anglo-American Literary Studies in Taiwan, 2015

By Chien-ting YEH

In Memoriam Prof. I-lu Teng

By Yu-cheng LEE

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