Books in the Critical Insurgencies series

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.