Huerta Magical Habits

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2148-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Writing Matters!

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huerta, Monica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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