C. P. Cavafy
The Economics of Metonymy
Influential essays on the African American experience from one of the subject’s founding scholars
Cloth – $57
978-0-252-03481-7
Paper – $27
978-0-252-07726-5
Publication Date
Cloth: 01/26/2010
Series: Traditions
About the Book
Konstantinos P. Kavafis--known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy--has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted the admiration of eminent literary figures such as E. M. Forster, F. T. Marinetti, W. H. Auden, George Seferis, and James Merrill. Focusing on Cavafy's intriguing and idiosyncratic work, this book navigates new territories in critical theory and offers an interdisciplinary study of the construction of (homo)erotic desire in poetry in terms of metonymic discourse and anti-economic libidinal modalities. Panagiotis Roilos shows that problematizations of art production, market economy, and trafficability of erôs in diverse late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European sociocultural and political contexts were re-articulated in Cavafy's poetry in new subversive ways that promoted an "unorthodox" discursive and libidinal anti-economy of jouissance.About the Author
Panagiotis Roilos is professor of modern Greek studies and of comparative literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel and the coauthor (with Dimitrios Yatromanolakis) of Towards a Ritual Poetics.Reviews
"Recommended."--ChoiceBlurbs
"This volume eloquently attests to Herbert Aptheker's pioneering role in African American history. For many years, McCarthyism deprived students of learning directly from this gifted professor, but his scholarship would later prove indispensable to early Black studies departments."--Martha Biondi, author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City
"These hard-to-find essays cohere well, capturing the realm in which a major and underappreciated U.S. historian made his most germinal contributions."--David R. Roediger, author of History Against Misery
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