num_pages: 429
description: This is an American novel of formed chaos playfully enacting the centrality of language in late twentieth-century art and life through the voices of two women steeped in Western traditions, one telling the story of her restoration of an ante-bellum house on the Florida Gulf Coast, the other faithfully recording it but running culturally wild in the process. In both literal and extended senses, The Restorationist is a mystery, with attendant bafflements, horrors, attempts to get to the bottom of mayhem and murder; artifices of trivialization by media, our technological doubles; arrangements of power in communities and in texts; signs and selves.
language: English
title: The Restorationist: Text One: A Collaborative Fiction by Jael B. Juba
titlecomplete: The Restorationist: Text One: A Collaborative Fiction by Jael B. Juba (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: State University of New York Press