I was just re-reading part of Specters of Marx yesterday! Thinking particularly about how Derrida conceives of borders and immigration…. “Marx remains an immigrant chez nous, a glorious, sacred, accursed but still a clandestine immigrant as he was all his life. He belongs to a time of disjunction, to that ‘time out of joint’ in which is inaugurated, laboriously, painfully, tragically, a new thinking of borders, a new experience of the house, the home, and the economy. Between earth and sky. One should not rush to make of the clandestine immigrant an illegal alien or … to domesticate him. To neutralize him through naturalization. To assimilate him so as to stop frightening oneself (making oneself fear) with him. He is not part of the family, but one should not send him back, once again, him too, to the border” (219).
I love this newsletter! And I love your list of hauntings in literature. Personal favorite literary hauntings: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Pale View of the Hills (Buried Giant too, tbh), Sarah Water’s The Little Stranger, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, also really loved Rebecca Turkewitz’ collection Here in the Night
I was just re-reading part of Specters of Marx yesterday! Thinking particularly about how Derrida conceives of borders and immigration…. “Marx remains an immigrant chez nous, a glorious, sacred, accursed but still a clandestine immigrant as he was all his life. He belongs to a time of disjunction, to that ‘time out of joint’ in which is inaugurated, laboriously, painfully, tragically, a new thinking of borders, a new experience of the house, the home, and the economy. Between earth and sky. One should not rush to make of the clandestine immigrant an illegal alien or … to domesticate him. To neutralize him through naturalization. To assimilate him so as to stop frightening oneself (making oneself fear) with him. He is not part of the family, but one should not send him back, once again, him too, to the border” (219).
I love this newsletter! And I love your list of hauntings in literature. Personal favorite literary hauntings: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Pale View of the Hills (Buried Giant too, tbh), Sarah Water’s The Little Stranger, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, also really loved Rebecca Turkewitz’ collection Here in the Night
So many of these I haven't read! The Little Stranger is on my radar, but I haven't gotten to that one yet. Soon…