Jess A. Goldberg

Abolition Time

Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

"Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 216mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781517917890
• ISBN-10: 1517917891
• Artikelnr.: 71650323

Autorenporträt

Jess A. Goldberg is assistant professor of American literature at New Mexico Highlands University. They are coeditor of Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition, a special issue of GLQ.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Justice Is Not an Event
1. Accumulation: The Excessive Present, the Middle Passage, and the
Juridical Event
2. Perforation: Inhabitation and the Vulnerability of the Law
An Interlude on Method, or Abolition Is Not a Metaphor
3. Witnessing: Impossible Recovery, Failed Recognition, and the Obligation
of Risk
4. Breath: Aspiration, Ungendered Mothering, and Im/Possible Futures
Coda: On Thinking the Impossible
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index