Description
Book SynopsisGrace Kyungwon Hong utilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase.
Trade Review"This book is a significant intervention in scholarship on the politics of life and death, explaining why this dyad is so central to neoliberal forms of governance and building on women of color feminism’s analysis of the impossibility of separating out life and death and the danger of forgetting that life for some means death for others."—Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Neoliberal Disavowal and the Politics of the Impossible
1. Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and Nationalist Memorialization
2. On Being Wrong and Feeling Right: Cherríe Moraga and Audre Lorde
3. Blues Futurity and Queer Improvisation
4. Bringing Out the Dead: Black Feminism’s Prophetic Vision
Epilogue: Life, Death, and Everything in Between
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
