Reading, Again. Reviving Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21206232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aparna Mishra Tarc (0000-0002-4383-9645, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-97 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19408447251319437 |
| OpenAlex | W4407277675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper will examine the role of affect as a key force in the experience of reading. I argue reading is an experience rather than an instrument of cognition. The latter, I suggest, gives way to dehumanizing and violating forms of reading as instrument or nomenclature or categorization. I suggest that new relations can be made in, within and from practices of reading that conceive it as a fragile, faltering practice of knowledge production. My reconceptualization of reading derives from Derrida’s notion of deconstruction as learning to read the trace of affect unraveling the normative and/or binary procedures cohering privileged and/or prejudicial understandings of the text. Reading for affect asks researchers to engage in an analysis of the felt and non-evident of people, events and texts. Rather than comprehend in the sense of cognition, we feel the trace of meanings cathected in signs before we know what the sign might mean. My paper will expand on reading as conveying affectivity or the unheard embedded in text. Increasingly there is a demand to read the other’s words with greater attention to feeling for what they do and do not say, can and cannot speak. In studies that purport to do research with humans, it seems to be imperative to engage in a practice of reading that attends to the other meanings indicated by words. This requires the development of a critical or close research reading practice that attends to affect or the interior meanings of articulations and text that words cannot easily convey
Art · Linguistics · Literature · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
The Origin of Others
Love’s Knowledge
The Importance of the Act of Reading
Making sense of reading’s forever wars
Labors of Reading in Post Qualitative Inquiry
Post-qualitative research
Those old familial feelings
Comes a Letter in the Mail
Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence
The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)
What Is a 'Relevant' Translation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |