Monica Huerta

Magical Habits

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Produktbeschreibung

Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities to make sense of our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013266
• ISBN-10: 1478013265
• Artikelnr.: 61937241

Autorenporträt

Monica Huerta is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note  ix
Preface: A Patron Saint  xi
1. The Synthesis Problem  1
2. Fabulation  22
1988  31
3. Disciplines and Disciples  33
4. Aphorism as a Promise  42
2002  48
5. Heartbreak as Praxis  51
6. Whether Wisdom  68
2004  73
The Quene. A Mervilos and Magiquall Tale of epistemological Mischief,
Wherein there are revealed no secretes  77
7. Before and After  85
2006  98
8. When Courts of Love Have Cash Registers  103
1976  107
9. Auctions  111
10. Uncertainty and Bathing  118
2010  124
2013  128
11. After Hypervigilance  132
2017  142
12. Choreography  143
Acknowledgments  153
Notes  157
Selected Bibliography  167