Claudia Rankine: Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)
Filed under poetry | Tags: · race
“Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named “post-race” society.”
Publisher Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
ISBN 9781555976903, 1555976905
169 pages
Reviews: Holly Bass (NYT), Nick Larid (NYRB), Dan Chiasson (New Yorker), Kate Kellaway (Guardian), Kenna O’Rourke (Adroit).
Commentary: LA Review of Books, (cont.).
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Stacy Alaimo, Susan Hekman (eds.): Material Feminisms (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · body, feminism, materialism, nature, philosophy, posthumanism, race, theory
“Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents a new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide.”
Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2008
ISBN 9780253349781, 0253349788
xi+434 pages
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Reviews: Olivia P. Banner (Signs 2009), Anna Carastathis (Symposium 2009), Maria Angel (Australian Feminist Studies 2009), Cara Elana Erdheim (Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ 2010).
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Comment (0)Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3): Problematizing Global Knowledge (2006)
Filed under book, journal | Tags: · aesthetics, archive, assemblage, body, classification, culture, encyclopedia, globalisation, information, knowledge, knowledge production, language, library, life, logic, media, modernity, network, public sphere, race, religion, science, space, technology, theory, time, translation, university, vitalism
In this special issue the TCS editorial board, along with colleagues in East and South-East Asia and other parts of the world, ventured in ‘encyclopaedic explorations’ in order to “rethink knowledge under the impact of globalization and digitization. The issue features over 150 entries and supplements on a range of topics which are addressed in terms of their relevance to knowledge formation, by contributors writing from a wide range of perspectives and different parts of the world. The entries and supplements are gathered under three main headings: metaconcepts, metanarratives and sites and institutions.”
Edited by Mike Featherstone, Couze Venn, Ryan Bishop and John Phillips, with Pal Ahluwalia, Roy Boyne, Beng Huat Chua, John Hutnyk, Scott Lash, Maria Esther Maciel, George Marcus, Aihwa Ong, Roland Robertson, Bryan Turner, Shiv Visvanathan, Shunya Yoshimi
With an Introduction by Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn
Publisher Sage, 2006
616 pages