Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas / / Judith Sierra-Rivera

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910315236203321
• Autore: Sierra-Rivera Judith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8142-5495-0; 0-8142-7650-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (148 pages)
• Collana: Global Latin/o Americas
• Disciplina: 303.372
• Soggetti: Social justice - Western Hemisphere; Electronic books.; Western Hemisphere Politics and government; Western Hemisphere Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Emotional intellectual interventions and the politics of collective enunciation in the neoliberal space of catastrophe -- No sin nosotros: Monsiváis'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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work of combatting collective, racist suppression can occur without replicating oppressive hierarchies. Intimate Antagonisms uncovers a key theme in Black fiction and argues that literature itself is a vital institutional site within Black life. Through ; the examination of intimate conflicts in a wide array of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, Blake demonstrates the centrality of intraracial relations to the complexity and vision of Black social movements and liberation struggles and the power and promise of Black narrative in reshaping struggle.