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They provide a global mapping of contemporary modes and acts of physical and representational violence and demonstrate how discourses of otherization are reinforced and interanimated through violence on what Elizabeth Grosz has called the "intensities" and "flows" of the body.
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Contents
Foreword: The Red and the BlackAlfred Arteaga
Violence, Bodies, and the Color of Fear: An IntroductionArturo J. Aldama
Part One. Global Crossings: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts
1. Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o SubjectivityArturo J. Aldama
2. Petrarchan Patriarchal: Poetic Nationalism or National Pornography in Hungary?Aniko Imre
3. Militarization of the Feminine Body: Women's Participation in the Tamil Nationalist StruggleYamuna Sangarasivam
4. Blood and Dirt: Politics of Women's Protest in Armagh Prison, North IrelandLeila Neti
5. Bodily Metaphors, Material Exclusions: The Sexual and Racial Politics of Domestic Partnership in FranceCatherine Raissiguier
6. Mattering National Bodies and Sexualities: Corporeal Contest in Marcos and BrockaRolando B. Tolentino
7. The Time of Violence. Deconstruction and ValueElizabeth Grosz
Part Two. Coloniality and the Consumption of the Other
8. Consuming Cannibalism: The Body in Australia's Pacific ArchiveMike Hayes
9. Isolates of Historic Interest' (IHSs): On Biocolonialism and Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples by the Genome Diversity AgendaAnnette Jaimes Guerrero
10. Angola, Convict Lease, and the Annulment of Freedom: The Vectors of Architectural and Discursive Violence in the U.S. "Slavery of Prison"Dennis Childs
11. Bernhard Goetz and the Politics of FearJonathan Markovitz
12. Pierced Tongues: Language and Violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia Margarita Saona
Part Three. Performing Race, Gender and Sexuality
13. Constituting Transgressive Interiorities: Psychiatric Readings of Morally Mad BodiesHeidi Rimke
14. When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur If Fanon, Castellanos, Derrida, Spivak, and Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her NameWilliam Anthony Nericcio
15. Double Cross: FTMs of Color, Asian American Gendering and the Illogics of Masculine Identification in the TransVideos of Christopher LeeSel J. Wahng
16 Teumsae-eso: Korean American Women Between Feminism and NationalismElaine Kim
17. Gendered Spirits in Shamanic Bodies: Colonization, Resistance and Creation in Mapuche Gendered HealingAna Mariella Bacigalupo
Part Four. Understanding "Trauma": The Psychic Effects of Material Violence
18. Re/membering the body: Latina Testimonies of Social and Family ViolenceYvette Flores-Ortiz
19. Sita's War and the Body Politic: Violence and Abuse in the Lives of South Asian WomenSunita Peacock
20. La Japonesita's Body as Site of Contention in the Inscription of Homoerotic Discourse in "el lugar sin límites" by Arturo RipsteinDavid William Foster
21. Medicalizing Human Rights, Domesticating Violence in Postdictatorship Market-StatesLessie Jo Frazier
22. Las Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood and Houseskirts by Challenging Violence in Juarez, Mexico, Argentina and El SalvadorCindy Bejarano
Contributors
Index
About the author
edited by Arturo J. Aldama
Summary
Explores the impact of violent speech and physical violence.
