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Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.

While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors to this volume emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in genocide's aftermath and provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, and healing.

Calls for an urgent reevaluation of identity politics as an aesthetic maneuver regulated by capitalism. Ani Maitra demonstrates that identity politics becomes real and material only because the minoritized subject is split between multiple sites of mediation while remaining firmly tethered to capitalism's hierarchical logic of value production.

Grounded in ecofeminist theory, this literary analysis examines Alice Walker's evolving views on animals in relation to her discussions of other oppressed groups. Pamela June argues that Walker's fiction can help readers understand and perhaps challenge American culture's mistreatment of nonhuman animals.

Argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. Pallavi Rastogi writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension.

Using Aihwa Ong's theorization of neoliberalism as a mobile technology and assemblage, this book explores how contemporary globalization, as an economic system and a governing rationality for the management of populations, has exacerbated forces of nationalism and racism.

Argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present.

Dissensual Subjects is a fascinating, interdisciplinary exploration of memory and human rights in postdictatorial Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina that will interest readers concerned with political subjectivity, aesthetics, cultural studies, visual culture, Southern Cone studies, postdictatorship studies, and sites of memory.

In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, W.E.B. Du Bois announced that he was a ""citizen of the world."" This book chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps his extraordinarily active and productive latter years to social, cultural, and political transformations across the globe.

Drawing together personal reflection, pedagogical strategies, and critical theory, this book offers concrete examinations to foster student learning. The essays are organized into three thematic sections: "Teaching in Times and Places of Struggle", "Teaching in the Neoliberal University" and "Teaching How to Read Race and (Counter)Narratives".