Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sierra-Rivera, Judith, author.
Imprint:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global Latin/o Americas Global Latin/o Americas.
Subject:	Social justice -- Western Hemisphere. Social justice. Social conditions. Politics and government. Western Hemisphere -- Politics and government. Western Hemisphere -- Social conditions. Western Hemisphere.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11721663

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ISBN:	9780814213780 0814213782 9780814254950 0814254950 9780814276501 0814276504
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193- 207) and index.
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"--

Table of 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.

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