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Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State

By Alfred Arteaga , Arturo J. Aldama

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0253215595, 9780253215598, 025334171X, 9780253341716, 9780253109880
Open Library ID
OL15541144M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2464882 bytes)
Pages
464\463
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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