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

Author
Sierra-Rivera, Judith
Published
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Contents
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.
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"--
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9780814213780 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814213782 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780814254950 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0814254950 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Penn State faculty contributor.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193- 207) and index.
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