Emily Apter: 4 books
Feminizing the Fetish
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...
The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
Unexceptional Politics
On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A new vision of politics “below the radar”
One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexceptional Politics develops a political vocabulary drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV), highlighting the scams,...
Against World Literature
On the Politics of Untranslatability
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated,...