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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797562603321

Autore

Hong Grace Kyungwon

Titolo

Death beyond disavowal : the impossible politics of difference / / Grace Kyungwon Hong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-5235-3

1-4529-4549-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Difference Incorporated

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Racism

Discrimination

Death - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: neoliberal disavowal and the politics of the impossible -- Fun with death and dismemberment: irony, farce, and nationalist memorialization -- On being wrong and feeling right: Cherrie Moraga and Audre Lorde -- Blues futurity and queer improvisation -- Bringing out the dead: black feminism's prophetic vision -- Epilogue: life, death, and everything in between.

Sommario/riassunto

'Death Beyond Disavowal' utilises 'difference' as theorised by women of colour feminists to analyse works of cultural production by people of colour as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.