{"product_id":"no-ones-witness-a-monstrous-poetics-hardcover","title":"No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Zolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo One's Witness\u003c\/i\u003e Rachel Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan--\"No one \/ bears witness for the \/ witness\"--to theorize the poetics and im\/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, continental philosophy, queer theory, experimental poetics, and work by several writers and artists, Zolf asks what it means to witness from the excessive, incalculable position of No One. In a fragmentary and recursive style that enacts the monstrous speech it pursues, \u003ci\u003eNo One's Witness \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the necessity of confronting the Nazi holocaust in relation to transatlantic slavery and its afterlives. Thinking along with black feminist theory's notions of entangled swarm, field, plenum, chorus, \u003ci\u003eNo One's Witness \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates the limits and thresholds of witnessing, its dangerous perhaps. No One operates outside the bounds of the sovereign individual, hauntologically informed by the fleshly no-thingness that has been historically ascribed to blackness and that blackness enacts within, apposite to, and beyond the No One. No One bears witness to becomings beyond comprehension, making and unmaking monstrous forms of entangled future anterior life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Zolf is Artist in Residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eSocial Poesis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788666011936,"sku":"9781478013334","price":161.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d14f4c4e2c0f908bdd6f1d67d220121c.webp?v=1780656984","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/no-ones-witness-a-monstrous-poetics-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}