Excavations

Laurie Duggan:

There is a further kind of excavation however that I want to think about here: the kind that pulls something entirely different from existing texts. If you could say that the kind of writing Reznikoff was interested in doing worked like a précis of the original text, this other kind of writing does no such thing. Instead, it discovers in the text another buried text that, while it might comment on the original material, might also be something the original author may never have intended. In some cases it can be like a repressed text silently waiting inside the original to be liberated by the second author.

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