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Death beyond Disavowal - The Impossible Politics of Difference (Paperback)
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Death beyond Disavowal - The Impossible Politics of Difference (Paperback)
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Death beyond Disavowal 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. According to Grace Kyungwon Hong,
neoliberalism is first and foremost a structure of disavowal
enacted as a reaction to the successes of the movements for
decolonization, desegregation, and liberation of the post-World War
II era. It emphasizes the selective and uneven affirmation and
incorporation of subjects and ideas that were formerly
categorically marginalized, particularly through invitation into
reproductive respectability. It does so in order to suggest that
racial, gendered, and sexualized violence and inequity are
conditions of the past, rather than the foundations of contemporary
neoliberalism's exacerbation of premature death. Neoliberal
ideologies hold out the promise of protection from premature death
in exchange for complicity with this pretense. In Audre Lorde's
Sister Outsider, Cherrie Moraga's The Last Generation and Waiting
in the Wings, Oscar Zeta Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach
People, Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora,
Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston, Inge Blackman's B. D. Women,
Rodney Evans's Brother to Brother, and the work of the late Barbara
Christian, Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and
precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase. Hong posits
cultural production as a compelling rejoinder to neoliberalism's
violences. She situates women of color feminism, often dismissed as
narrow or limited in its effect, as a potent diagnosis of and
alternative to such violences. And she argues for the importance of
women of color feminism to any critical engagement with
contemporary neoliberalism.
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