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urn:uuid:2adf5b44-a6ae-4877-9963-3286ed9428f7 03 15 9781685711658 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Presence of Absence Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing 1 A01 Katina L. Rogers Katina Rogers is an independent scholar and the author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press, 2020). She is among those who made radical career changes during the pandemic, and founded Inkcap Consulting in 2021 to help universities build more supportive and sustainable graduate programs. She has two young kids, significant racial and class privilege, and a deep frustration with higher education that is inextricably bound up with hope. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 01 eng 00 96 03 23 Cultural Studies+Critical Theory 10 LIT020000 23 silence 10 LIT006000 23 Literary Studies 23 trauma 23 literary theory 23 photography 23 archives 23 mourning 23 elegy 23 Anne Carson 23 Jacques Roubaud 23 Saidiya Hartman 23 Edmond Jabès 01 06 03 00 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of relationships, identity, and grief. Through gorgeously slow and close readings, Rogers explores absence and excess, fragmentation and translation, and — above all — the push and pull between presence and absence, with absence carrying as much significance as presence (and sometimes more).The Presence of Absence crosses languages and disciplines, working in French and English across poetry, photography, history, and literary theory. Through investigations of Nox by Anne Carson, Quelque chose noir by Jacques Roubaud, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, and Le livre des questions by Edmond Jabès, Rogers explores various truths — about loss but also about knowledge, beauty, even higher education — that are difficult to articulate and yet resonate deeply with lived experience. Dead Letter Office 01 punctum books 04 01 20240619 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685711641 06 15 9781685711658 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01