In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh.” Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Who Is Who in the Peronist Network
- Introduction: The Day of the Rally Complaining about T-shirts on Perón’s Birthday
- 1. ‘‘They Were Mostly Poor People’’Poverty and Inequality in Contemporary Buenos Aires
- 2. ‘‘Most of Them Were Comingfrom Villa Paraíso’’History and Lived Experiences of Shantytown Dwellers
- 3. ‘‘They Knew Matilde ’’The Problem-Solving Network
- 4. ‘‘We Will Fight Forever,We Are Peronists’’ Eva Perón as a Public Performance
- 5. The ‘‘Clientelist’’ ViewpointHow Shantytown Dwellers Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism
- 6. ‘‘They Were All Peronists’’The Remnants of the Populist Heresy
- Conclusions Problem Solving through Political Mediationas a Structure of Feeling
- Epilogue Last Rally
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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