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Violentologies explores how different forms of violence shape identity and political vision in both familiar and unexpected ways using Latina/o writers and performers as case-studies.
List of contents
- Preface
- From Fort Knox, Kentucky to Havana, Cuba: Testimonial Reflections on Race, War, and Revolution
- Introduction
- Violentologies: Violence, Ideology, and Supra-Latina/o Ontologies
- Part I: Warfare and Latina/o Archetypes
- 1: Caballeros and Indians: Land, War, and the Indian Question in Latina/o Autobiography, Historical Fiction, and Popular Culture
- 2: Macho Man: Homosocial Soldiering and Ideological Dissensus in Mexican American WWII Memoir, Theater, and Film
- Part II: Violence and the Global Latinidades
- 3: Latina/o-Asian Encounters: Transversal Syntheses in Asia, the "Orient," and the Ummah in Latina/o Wartime Narrative, Travelogue, Spoken Word, and Hip Hop
- 4: Violence and the TransNational Question: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Latina/o War Literature
- 5: Militarized Mestizajes: Combat, Transculturation, and Imperialism in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on Terror
- Conclusion
- The Latinx Mixtape: Violentologies, the End of Latina/o Studies, and Post-Latina/o Futures
About the author
B. V. Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. He previously served on English Department faculties at Cornell University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, with visiting appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010).
Summary
Violentologies explores how different forms of violence shape identity and political vision in both familiar and unexpected ways using Latina/o writers and performers as case-studies.
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Violentologies teaches readers to perceive differently the horrors, hurts, and sufferings of war; to diagnose and treat the sociality-of-violence that imbues our lives; and to allow glimpses of the social physics of peace. Olguín encourages and inspires us to engage in a form of auto-criticality that is derived from Anzaldúan, Freirean, and Fanonian insistences on critical thinking/doing/being. At every level, Violentologies is an original and landmark theoretical and methodological intervention that takes up, and goes beyond, previous contributions to revolutionary thinking. Arrayed here are original theories and methods that will advance any academic discipline committed to the study and deployment of liberation.
