Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference

Awards:   Winner of Death beyond Disavowal 2016
Author:   Grace Kyungwon Hong
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816695300


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of Death beyond Disavowal 2016

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Author:   Grace Kyungwon Hong
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780816695300


ISBN 10:   081669530
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents 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

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""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


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


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


Author Information

Grace Kyungwon Hong is associate professor of Asian American studies and gender studies at UCLA. She is author of The Ruptures of American Capital (Minnesota, 2006) and coeditor of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization.

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