{"product_id":"death-beyond-disavowal-grace-kyungwon-hong-9780816695300","title":"Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath beyond Disavowal \u003c\/i\u003eutilizes \"difference\" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Grace Kyungwon Hong, neoliberalism is first and foremost a structure of disavowal enacted as a reaction to the successes of the movements for decolonization, desegregation, and liberation of the post-World War II era. It emphasizes the selective and uneven affirmation and incorporation of subjects and ideas that were formerly categorically marginalized, particularly through invitation into reproductive respectability. It does so in order to suggest that racial, gendered, and sexualized violence and inequity are conditions of the past, rather than the foundations of contemporary neoliberalism's exacerbation of premature death. Neoliberal ideologies hold out the promise of protection from premature death in exchange for complicity with this pretense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e, Cherr e Moraga's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Generation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaiting in the Wings\u003c\/i\u003e, Oscar Zeta Acosta's \u003ci\u003eThe Revolt of the Cockroach People\u003c\/i\u003e, Ana Castillo's \u003ci\u003eSo Far from God\u003c\/i\u003e, Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e, Isaac Julien's \u003ci\u003eLooking for Langston\u003c\/i\u003e, Inge Blackman's \u003ci\u003eB. D. Women\u003c\/i\u003e, Rodney Evans's \u003ci\u003eBrother to Brother\u003c\/i\u003e, and the work of the late Barbara Christian, \u003ci\u003eDeath beyond Disavowal\u003c\/i\u003e finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHong posits cultural production as a compelling rejoinder to neoliberalism's violences. She situates women of color feminism, often dismissed as narrow or limited in its effect, as a potent diagnosis of and alternative to such violences. And she argues for the importance of women of color feminism to \u003ci\u003eany\u003c\/i\u003e critical engagement with contemporary neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grace Kyungwon Hong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081669530X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816695300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Grace Kyungwon Hong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926489956607,"sku":"9780816695300","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_68d5755c-0429-457b-ad35-89ffa0147702.jpg?v=1681083362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-beyond-disavowal-grace-kyungwon-hong-9780816695300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}