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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of violent speech and physical violence.
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword: The Red and the Black Alfred Arteaga
Violence, Bodies, and the Color of Fear: An Introduction Arturo J. Aldama
Part One. Global Crossings: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts
1. Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o Subjectivity Arturo J. Aldama
2. Petrarchan Patriarchal: Poetic Nationalism or National Pornography in Hungary? Aniko Imre
3. Militarization of the Feminine Body: Women's Participation in the Tamil Nationalist Struggle Yamuna Sangarasivam
4. Blood and Dirt: Politics of Women's Protest in Armagh Prison, North Ireland Leila Neti
5. Bodily Metaphors, Material Exclusions: The Sexual and Racial Politics of Domestic Partnership in France Catherine Raissiguier
6. Mattering National Bodies and Sexualities: Corporeal Contest in Marcos and Brocka Rolando B. Tolentino
7. The Time of Violence. Deconstruction and Value Elizabeth Grosz
Part Two. Coloniality and the Consumption of the Other
8. Consuming Cannibalism: The Body in Australia's Pacific Archive Mike Hayes
9. Isolates of Historic Interest' (IHSs): On Biocolonialism and Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples by the Genome Diversity Agenda Annette Jaimes Guerrero
10. Angola, Convict Lease, and the Annulment of Freedom: The Vectors of Architectural and Discursive Violence in the U.S. "Slavery of Prison" Dennis Childs
11. Bernhard Goetz and the Politics of Fear Jonathan Markovitz
12. Pierced Tongues: Language and Violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia Margarita Saona
Part Three. Performing Race, Gender and Sexuality
13. Constituting Transgressive Interiorities: Psychiatric Readings of Morally Mad Bodies Heidi Rimke
14. When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur If Fanon, Castellanos, Derrida, Spivak, and Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her Name William Anthony Nericcio
15. Double Cross: FTMs of Color, Asian American Gendering and the Illogics of Masculine Identification in the TransVideos of Christopher Lee Sel J. Wahng
16 Teumsae-eso: Korean American Women Between Feminism and Nationalism Elaine Kim
17. Gendered Spirits in Shamanic Bodies: Colonization, Resistance and Creation in Mapuche Gendered Healing Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Part Four. Understanding "Trauma": The Psychic Effects of Material Violence
18. Re/membering the body: Latina Testimonies of Social and Family Violence Yvette Flores-Ortiz
19. Sita's War and the Body Politic: Violence and Abuse in the Lives of South Asian Women Sunita Peacock
20. La Japonesita's Body as Site of Contention in the Inscription of Homoerotic Discourse in "el lugar sin límites" by Arturo Ripstein David William Foster
21. Medicalizing Human Rights, Domesticating Violence in Postdictatorship Market-States Lessie Jo Frazier
22. Las Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood and Houseskirts by Challenging Violence in Juarez, Mexico, Argentina and El Salvador Cindy Bejarano
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