Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas / Judith Sierra-Rivera.
Sierra-Rivera, Judith, author.
2018
HM671 .S47 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas / Judith Sierra-Rivera.
Author
Sierra-Rivera, Judith, author.
ISBN
9780814254950 (paperback)
0814254950 (paperback)
9780814213780 (hardcover)
0814213782 (hardcover)
9780814276501 (electronic book)
0814276504 (electronic book)
Published
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HM671 .S47 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.3/72091812
Summary
"A study of contexts of crisis--natural disasters in Mexico, forced displacements between Central America and the United States, a whitewashed transition to democracy in Chile, colonialism and wars in Puerto Rico, and racism and patriarchy in Cuba--which examines the role of intellectuals in working toward social justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193- 207) and index.
Series
Global Latin/o Americas.
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Introduction: Emotional intellectual interventions and the politics of collective enunciation in the neoliberal space of catastrophe
No sin nosotros: Monsivâais'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.

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