Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the StateArturo J. Aldama Violence and the Body: Race, Gender and the State explores the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual, domestic, and state violence, examining the materiality of violence on the "otherized" body.Grounded in U.S./Mexico border and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this collection intersect discussions of subalternity, violence, and discourses of the body in a transethnic, feminist, and global cultural studies context. 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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Borders Violence and the Struggle for Chicana and Chicano | 19 |
Hungarian Poetic Nationalism or National Pornography? Eastern | 39 |
Womens Participation in the Tamil | 59 |
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