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The Wound and the Womb: The Politics of Reproduction and Repair in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy
My article places Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy’s representation of the psychological wounds of (post)coloniality in conversation with Frantz Fanon’s work that politicized the psychological dimension of human (social) life. While both Fanon and Dangarembga ascribe a fundamental importance to the realm of the “subjective”—Fanon’s term—in thinking about social and political life, the trilogy, I argue, introduces a feminist perspective to investigate the (mis)fortunes of the psychological. More specifically, I contend that the trilogy descries the psychological through (to use Emma Dowling’s phrasing) “the lens of social reproduction.” Such a standpoint, explicitly visible in This Mournable Body , helps Dangarembga establish that psycho-affective reproductive labor—the feminized, devalued, and invisibilized work of love and care—births and nurtures the psychological realm. My paper evinces the presence of this reproductive standpoint by tending to Tambu’s vexed relationship with her mother in the second and the third novels, one that finds closure through the crucial scene of the mother’s nervous breakdown in This Mournable Body . With this reproductive lens, I show that the trilogy, especially The Book of Not and This Mournable Body (the focus of my essay), illuminates that the absence of care is a necessary aspect of psychological wounding. In this way, the trilogy demonstrates that Fanon’s theorization is indispensable but limited as his theoretical framework does not account for the feminized psycho-emotional labor of care in his discussion of the causes of psychological distress. Finally, my essay also shows that This Mournable Body advances a feminist reparative imaginary that recognizes the political necessity of healing and repairing the psychological damage of coloniality and postcoloniality through collectivized practices of care. My essay avers that in linking—what Marxist-feminist scholars term—a “crisis of care” to the problem of postcolonial wounding, Dangarembga reimagines the Fanonian (masculinist) political tradition by inserting within it a feminist reparative politics.
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Unmuted : conversations on prejudice, oppression, and social justice
\"Why do people hate one another? Why do so many people combat prejudice based on their race, sexual orientation, or disability? What does segregation look like today? Many of us ponder and discuss urgent questions such as these at home, and see them debated in the media, the classroom, and our social media feeds, but many of us don't have access to the important new ways philosophers are thinking about these very issues. Enter UnMute, the popular podcast hosted by Myisha Cherry, which hosts a diverse group of philosophers, and explores their cutting-edge work through casual conversation. This book collects 31 of Cherry's lively and timely interviews, offering an accessible resource through which to encounter some of philosophy's most socially and politically engaged, public-facing work. Its original illustrations, depicting the interview subjects up close, show just how broad a range of philosophers - black, white, and brown, male and female, queer and straight, abled and disabled - are at the center of crucial contemporary conversations. Cherry asks philosophers to talk about their ideas in ways that anyone can understand, explaining how they got interseted in philosophy, and why the questions they investigate matter urgently. Along with the interviews, the volume provides a foreword by Cornel West, a section in which all the interviewees explain how they got into philosophy, and a \"Say What?\" glossary defining terms that might be new to some readers. Like the podcast that inspired it, the book welcomes in those new to these philosophical questions, those captivated by questions of race, class, gender, and other issues and looking for a new lens through which to examine them, and those well versed in public philosophy looking for a one-stop guide\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Vico's New science of the intersubjective world
\"Among the classics of the history of philosophy, the Scienza nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was largely neglected and generally misunderstood during the author's lifetime. From the nineteenth century onwards Vico's views found a wider audience, and today his influence is widespread in the humanities and social sciences. The New Science is often taught in courses at colleges and universities, both in philosophy and Italian departments and in general humanities courses. Despite the excellent English translations of this enigmatic book and numerous studies in English of Vico, many sections of the work remain challenging to the modern reader. Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World offers both an in-depth analysis of all the important ideas of the book as well as an evaluation of their contribution to our present understanding of the social world. In the first chapter, Vittorio Hosle examines Vico's life, sources, and writings. The second and third chapters discuss the concerns and problems of the Scienza nuova. The fourth chapter traces the broader history of Vico's reception. Hosle facilitates the understanding of many passages in the work as well as the overarching structure of its claims, which are often dispersed over many sections. Hosle reformulates Vico's vision in such a way that it is not only of historical interest but may inspire ongoing debates about the nature of the humanities and social sciences as well as many other issues on which Vico sheds light, from the relation of poetry and poetics to the development of law. This book will prepare students and scholars for a precise study of the Scienza nuova, equipping them with the necessary categories and context and familiarizing them with the most important problems in the critical debate on Vico's philosophy. \"Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World delivers a comprehensive treatment of Vico, which is neither too detailed and technical nor too superficial. The book gives a clear picture of what Vico wanted to say, where he might have been wrong or become obsolete, and what his true achievements are for which he still deserves praise.\" --Peter Konig, University of Heidelberg\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dialectics of Oppression: Fanon's Anticolonial Critique of Hegelian Dialectics
This essay argues that a more accurate reading of Fanon should reveal that he did not appropriate, but rejected Hegelian dialectics as a dialectics of oppression. Especially noteworthy is Fanon's observation that Hegel's dialectics consists of a form of oppression that perpetuates racialized violence against Black people through the ontological theorizing of exclusion--the exclusion from the zone of being. Hence, the essay concludes by defending the view that Fanon's discussion of violence is an inevitable mechanism for rupturing the ontological violence in Hegelian dialectics, which generates the crisis for recognition, and puts Fanon in opposition to Hegel.
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Hannah Arendt : the last interview and other conversations
\"A unique selection of the most significant interviews given by Hannah Arendt, including the last she gave before her death in 1975. Some are published here in English for the first time. Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of \"the banality of evil\" which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an emigre. Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century's boldest and most original thinkers. As well as Arendt's last interview with French journalist Roger Errera, the volume features an important interview from the early 60s with German journalist Gunter Gaus, in which the two discuss Arendt's childhood and her escape from Europe, and a conversation with acclaimed historian of the Nazi period, Joachim Fest, as well as other exchanges. These interviews show Arendt in vigorous intellectual form, taking up the issues of her day with energy and wit. She offers comments on the nature of American politics, on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, on Israel; remembers her youth and her early experience of anti-Semitism, and then the swift rise of the Hitler; debates questions of state power and discusses her own processes of thinking and writing. Hers is an intelligence that never rests, that demands always of her interlocutors, and her readers, that they think critically. As she puts it in her last interview, just six months before her death at the age of 69, \"there are no dangerous thoughts, for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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