On Critique and Inheritance
On Critique and Inheritance
This chapter presents the author's reflections about her father. Born in China in 1928, her father had a wartime childhood that displaced him from Shanghai to Hong Kong, Burma, Yunnan, and Calcutta before arriving in the United States in 1945 at the age of sixteen. He was an intellectual historian and social theorist, who taught at several universities before settling into a career in the History Department at San Francisco State from 1968 until his retirement in 1992. Since he passed away in July 2009, a significant part of the author's mourning has involved thinking deeply about the questions of critique and inheritance, reckoning and responsibility. She now comprehends that her father's life and death as profoundly attentive, committed to this sense of critique, taking actions to resolve contradictions, even when those actions pronounced the realization of the impossibility of resolution.
Keywords: literary critics, criticism, critique, inheritance, reckoning, responsibility, father
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