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Published: 26 May 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386384-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8638-4
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 05 August 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391203-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9120-3
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 10 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374923-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7492-3
... This chapter argues the Chicana/o geography of Aztlán is produced at the crossing of the U.S. and Mexican geographies in the Southwest and as an effect of the profound psychic loss suffered by a melancholic Mexican American population forced to renounce indigenous ancestry. The chapter examines...
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 10 April 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384748-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8474-8
Published: 22 March 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392774-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9277-4
Published: 16 March 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392781-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9278-1
Series: Politics, History, and Culture
Published: 26 June 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389668-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8966-8
Published: 13 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374367-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... corrective surgery offered by American benefactors for the spinal deformation he suffers as a result of the disaster, Animal insists on remaining an allegorical symbol of the systemic human rights abuses that are produced by neoliberal policies. Representing what this essay terms “melancholic citizenship...
Published: 12 March 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395133-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9513-3
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
Published: 24 April 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478007357-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0735-7
Book Chapter

By Debjani Ganguly
Published: 22 July 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7424-4
... neovisuality spectatorship intermediality ekphrasis melancholic property ...
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 10 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7492-3
... East L.A. Thirteen Biltmore Six Chicana/o nationalism Aztlán melancholic incorporation psychic repression racial unconscious la raza cósmica blackface minstrelsy Oscar Zeta Acosta ...
Book Chapter

By Rebecca E. Karl
Published: 10 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373322-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7332-2
... This afterword in place of a conclusion presents a brief meditation on the problem of the magic concepts in the renewed elaboration in China studies of a sinocentric universalism. By way of conclusion, the afterword intends to be melancholic about the prospects for a genuinely critical China...
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 12 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375203-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7520-3
... than has been assumed in the feminist and critical literatures. Using Freud and Abraham’s work on melancholia, and clinical studies of merycism (repeated regurgitation and swallowing of food), this chapter argues that loss is not simply something that happens to the melancholic. Rather, losses/attacks...
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 12 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7520-3
... to the melancholic. Rather, losses/attacks/destruction are also one of the things that the melancholic enacts in relation to the objects she or he loves. The chapter closes with a discussion of two examples where this analysis could expand feminist thinking: Judith Butler’s response to being verbally attacked...
Published: 13 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7436-7
... an allegorical symbol of the systemic human rights abuses that are produced by neoliberal policies. Representing what this essay terms “melancholic citizenship,” Animal chooses to be a melancholic emblem of the failure of his citizenship to secure his human rights. neoliberalism postcolonial literature...
Published: 22 July 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374244-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7424-4
.... neovisuality spectatorship intermediality ekphrasis melancholic property ...
Series: a Cultural Politics Book
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373476-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7347-6
..., and the ancestral prisons of dead labor. It defines the agent of eco-aesthetic politics as the necessarily melancholic subject who alone might be capable of constructing a future in which one might be once again able to connect across phyla. It returns in concluding to The Story of the Kelly Gang , the damaged...
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059325-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5932-5
... with Guinea slave ships of the 1790s: thus, postwar melancholic Akan women and disintegrating slaves of the late eighteenth century. The mammy wagons and shrines of the first pry open a modern, emergent West African, where anthropologist Margaret Field encountered depressed women enmeshed in dreams, fast...