The Sublime Perversion of Capital

The Sublime Perversion of Capital

Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan

By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and engagement with globalization debates and forges a definition of justice keyed to the specificity of time, place, and feeling. Writing from multiple disciplinary and geographical perspectives, the contributors participate in a long-standing feminist tradition of upending spatial hierarchies and making theory out of the practices of everyday life.
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Global and the Intimate
  • I THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY
  • 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis
  • 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment
  • 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (Book)
  • 4. Widening Circles
  • II MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY
  • 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions
  • 6. Objects of Return
  • 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity
  • 8. Letter from Argentina
  • III LEGISLATING INTIMACY
  • "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism
  • 10. "LIke a Family, Byt Not Quite": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy
  • 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love
  • 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison
  • IV GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE
  • 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar
  • 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork
  • 15. Tehran Kids
  • Contributors
  • Index

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