Reviews for Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights

The average rating for Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-21 00:00:00 Ben Richards Blanchot writing on the writings of others. This collection of short reflections on writers, prose, poetry and thinking is headed by an introduction which reveals Blanchot writing in his finest form. The subsequent essays are false steps, to be certain. They find Blanchot utilizing his penetrating reading abilities to draw unique thoughts from the works he writes on; but they always lack the step that takes them beyond. This, of course, is a step-not, pas. This is a step that cannot be taken, in this sense, through writing. The transgressive pas. These writings, on writings, are no writings, in a sense. They lack something, which is of course nothing. What they lack is nothing. This lack moves towards the ends of each piece, beckoning onward, beyond, with a motion of transgression. But this transgression is never written, never made clear, except through the denial, the no, the fact that they do not say.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-12 00:00:00 Jared Ryder first: the slip cover for the hardcover is....ungh! gorgeous. the book feels great in the hand. so you're going to shell out all kinds of money for the hardcover. then A. Alvarez's writing is going to make you want to buy about thirty different books, because that's the effect he has whenever writes about any piece of literature. so save up about $200 before attempting this book. this book isn't quite the masterpiece that the author's The Savage God is - a bit repetitive, a bit scattered, not awe-inspiring - but beautiful nonetheless. he heaps a surprising amount of condemnation on the Beats: goes out of his way, even, like driving ten miles out of your way to kick someone's gravesite, but the vituperation is not uninteresting. and i was heartened and vindicated by his disdain for speedreading. regardless of your views on these subjects, your good old well-mannered lyrical insightful literate friend Alvarez is here to charm you for the night.