WRITING ON THE WALL: BENJAMIN, KAFKA, BORGES, AND THE CHINESE IMAGINARY

Autores/as

  • CARLOS ROJAS

Palabras clave:

Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Deleuze and Guattari, Minor Literature, China

Resumen

Using Kafka’s short story “The Great Wall of China” as a starting point, this essay examines the ways in which a dialectics of inclusion and exclusion, construction and destruction, have been deployed in discussions of identity and difference. In particular, I argue that even as Walter Benjamin uses Kafka as a starting point to reflect on how the West imagines China as a space of radical alterity, Kafka’s own Great Wall story is interested instead in how China conceives its relationship to its own strategic Other, which in turn offers a model for how we might understand the West itself.

Publicado

2015-07-31

Cómo citar

ROJAS, C. (2015). WRITING ON THE WALL: BENJAMIN, KAFKA, BORGES, AND THE CHINESE IMAGINARY. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (13), 71–81. Recuperado a partir de https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/14132