Violence and the Body

edited by Arturo J. Aldama

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.

ContentsForeword: The Red and the BlackAlfred ArteagaViolence, Bodies, and the Color of Fear: An IntroductionArturo J. AldamaPart One. Global Crossings: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts1. Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o SubjectivityArturo J. Aldama2. Petrarchan Patriarchal: Poetic Nationalism or National Pornography in Hungary?Aniko Imre3. Militarization of the Feminine Body: Women's Participation in the Tamil Nationalist StruggleYamuna Sangarasivam4. Blood and Dirt: Politics of Women's Protest in Armagh Prison, North IrelandLeila Neti5. Bodily Metaphors, Material Exclusions: The Sexual and Racial Politics of Domestic Partnership in FranceCatherine Raissiguier6. Mattering National Bodies and Sexualities: Corporeal Contest in Marcos and BrockaRolando B. Tolentino7. The Time of Violence. Deconstruction and ValueElizabeth GroszPart Two. Coloniality and the Consumption of the Other8. Consuming Cannibalism: The Body in Australia's Pacific ArchiveMike Hayes9. Isolates of Historic Interest' (IHSs): On Biocolonialism and Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples by the Genome Diversity AgendaAnnette Jaimes Guerrero10. Angola, Convict Lease, and the Annulment of Freedom: The Vectors of Architectural and Discursive Violence in the U.S. "Slavery of Prison"Dennis Childs11. Bernhard Goetz and the Politics of FearJonathan Markovitz12. Pierced Tongues: Language and Violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia Margarita SaonaPart Three. Performing Race, Gender and Sexuality13. Constituting Transgressive Interiorities: Psychiatric Readings of Morally Mad BodiesHeidi Rimke14. When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur If Fanon, Castellanos, Derrida, Spivak, and Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her NameWilliam Anthony Nericcio15. Double Cross: FTMs of Color, Asian American Gendering and the Illogics of Masculine Identification in the TransVideos of Christopher LeeSel J. Wahng16 Teumsae-eso: Korean American Women Between Feminism and NationalismElaine Kim17. Gendered Spirits in Shamanic Bodies: Colonization, Resistance and Creation in Mapuche Gendered HealingAna Mariella BacigalupoPart Four. Understanding "Trauma": The Psychic Effects of Material Violence18. Re/membering the body: Latina Testimonies of Social and Family ViolenceYvette Flores-Ortiz19. Sita's War and the Body Politic: Violence and Abuse in the Lives of South Asian WomenSunita Peacock20. La Japonesita's Body as Site of Contention in the Inscription of Homoerotic Discourse in "el lugar sin límites" by Arturo RipsteinDavid William Foster21. Medicalizing Human Rights, Domesticating Violence in Postdictatorship Market-StatesLessie Jo Frazier22. Las Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood and Houseskirts by Challenging Violence in Juarez, Mexico, Argentina and El SalvadorCindy BejaranoContributorsIndex