Madina Tlostanova (Sweden Linkoping University)

Narratives of Unsettlement

Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present à poque.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781032384146
• ISBN-10: 103238414X
• Artikelnr.: 66705250

Autorenporträt

Madina Tlostanova is a Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. She has written widely on existential, epistemic, gender and aesthetic aspects of coloniality and decoloniality, on the intersections of the post-socialist and postcolonial human conditions, fiction and arts over the past twenty years. Her recent books include Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re- existence (2017), What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (2018), A New Political Imagination. Making the Case (2020, co-authored with Tony Fry).

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
Overture: The Chimera of unsettlement
II. Variations on the time of unsettlement
1. Furia and the zärdaly jam
2. Can we fix the disjointed time?
III. We will never be settled again
3. A tower on the Simurgh Mountain
4. The unsettled worlding(s)
IV. Against immunity
5. A cream-cheese choux
6. Biomedical coloniality and the Covid-19 conundrum
7. A portrait of an unknown lady
V. Carmen Saeculare
8. The song of the age that has never come
9. Hikikomori in the time of plague