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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and disciplines, including law and the arts.
Trade Review"This brilliantly conceived and well-executed volume combines the surprising and the obvious in the very best way: there is, to my knowledge, no existing significant body of contemporary critical discourse on the subject, but once we are presented with its theme, it appears not only exciting and important, but inevitable.
The Rhetoric of Sincerity is the kind of book that calls an entire field of inquiry into being." —Mark Reinhardt, Williams College
Table of ContentsContents List of Contributors xxx Introduction 000 Ernst van Alphen and Mieke Bal Part I. Sincerity as Subjectivity Effect 1 "Why do you tear me from Myself?": Torture, Truth, and the Arts of the Counter-Reformation 000 Jane Taylor 2 Melody and Monotone: Performing Sincerity in Republican France 000 Katherine Bergeron 3 The Irreconcilability of Hypocrisy and Sincerity 000 Frans-Willem Korsten 4 The Rhetoric of Justification: The Preponderance of Decisions over Rules 000 Carel Smith 5 Must We (NOT) Mean What We Say? Seriousness and Sincerity in the Work of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell 000 Hent de Vries Part II. Declining Sincerity 6 Can the Subaltern Confess? Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the Deployment of Sexuality 000 Cesare Casarino 7 Like a Dog: Narrative and Confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The Lives of Animals 000 Yasco Horsman 8 Putting Sincerity to Work: Acquiescence and Refusal in Postfordist Art 000 David McNeill 9 When Sincerity Fails: Literatures of Migration and the Emblematic Labor of Personhood 000 Leslie A. Adelson Part III. Sincerity as a Media Effect 10 A Feeling of Insincerity: Politics, Ventriloquy, and the Dialectics of Gesture in Mediality 000 Jill Bennet 11 Derrida on Film: Staging Spectral Sincerity 000 Michael Bachmann 12 Documenting September 11th: Trauma and the (Im)possibility of Sincerity 000 Alison Young 13 Being Angela Merkel 000 Maaike Bleeker 14 "Saying Everything" and Affected Self-Disclosure in the Works of Reinaldo Arenas and Herv' Guibert 000 Reindert Dhondt Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
