Destruction,Narrative and the Excess of Uniqueness: Reading Cavarero on Violence and Narration |
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Authors: | Timothy J Huzar |
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Institution: | School of Humanities, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK |
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Abstract: | In this article, I critically engage Adriana Cavarero’s account of uniqueness via an analysis of her work on narrativity and violence. I suggest there is an ambivalence in Cavarero’s account of uniqueness: Cavarero argues both that uniqueness is susceptible to destruction, and that it cannot finally be annihilated. To make this clear I use Cavarero’s account to read a narrative offered by Miklós Nyiszli, of a woman who survived an Auschwitz gas chamber. I contrast this to Cavarero’s reading of Eurydice and Orpheus, arguing that the ambivalence in Cavarero’s account can be resolved by thinking an excess proper to uniqueness. |
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Keywords: | Adriana Cavarero narrative uniqueness Nyiszli Eurydice |
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