...Sandrine Sanos Abstract This article proposes that returning Denise Riley’s work on (and troubling of) the category of “women” offers a feminist theorizing and politics that remains both critical and relevant to the political present. It argues that reading Riley again, alongside other anti...

...Amanda Armstrong-Price; Julie Beth Napolin Abstract In this conversation, composed through written correspondence, Julie Beth Napolin and Amanda Armstrong-Price discuss aspects of Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name?” in light of contemporary feminist debates, including debates within black feminism...

...Nasrin Olla Abstract Should critical traditions value transparency, surface effects, and a realist attitude? Does the frame of realism help us recognize, narrate, and understand histories marked by erasure? This article analyzes Denise Riley’s 1988 book “Am I That Name?” alongside Gayatri Spivak’s...

... longbeendeployed by historians to document andconfirmthe always already civilly and socially dead black body and life. However, as Denise Riley notes in a reading ofAlthusser's essay oninterpellation, the always alreadysuccessful hailingor calling, which both acknowledges andsubjectssimultaneouslyand, as Althusser...

.... For a published version, see Scott Long, "Unbearable Witness: How Western Activists {mis) Recognize Sexuality in Iran;' Contemporary Politics 15, no. 1 {March 2009): 119-36. 3. Janet Jakobsen, WorkingAlliances and thePolitics ofDifference:Diversity andFeminist Ethics (1998). 4. Denise Riley, The Words...

... Linda , 153 – 57 . New York : Routledge , 1997 . Rancière Jacques . “ Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization .” October , no. 61 ( 1992 ): 58 – 64 . Riley Denise . Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History . Minneapolis : University...