Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas

Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sierra-Rivera, Judith, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus, OH The Ohio State University Press 2018
Columbus : [2018]
Colección:Global Latin/o Americas.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434677506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Emotional intellectual interventions and the politics of collective enunciation in the neoliberal space of catastrophe
  • No sin nosotros: Monsiváis's emergent, moving, and cruel optimism
  • For the believers: Francisco Goldman's Moro hybrid place as a bridge for the agents of hope
  • Pedro Lemebel's queer intellectual discourse or la loca's angry, enamored, and melancholic call
  • Angry brotherly love: U.S. militarized Puerto Rican bodies and Josean Ramos's filin
  • Afro-Cuban cyberfeminism: love/sexual revolution in Sandra Álvarez Ramírez's blogging
  • Epilogue: Intimacies of a "we," commonalities, and intellectual discourses.