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Dear all,
This new edited collection will be of particular interest to those of
you working with queer theory and its intersections with
post-colonial/critical race theories and related work. Those of you
based in the UK or visiting, are warmly invited to attend the book
launch this November. Full details below; please circulate widely.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Adi
***********New book announcement and invitation to book
launch******************
*1. NEW BOOK*
*_/Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality/_
Edited by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake*
York: Raw Nerve Books
ISBN 978-0-9553586-4-7
Price: £12; postage is free until November 2008 when ordering from the
publisher http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace.html, quote code
OOP61108
Official book launch: 7 November 2008 (details below)
_Out of Place_ asks daring and timely questions about the silence at the
heart of queer studies. Discussing 'race' alongside 'queer' often
submerges raciality within queerness, leaving racialised groups silent
and silenced -'out of place'. The book creates a space where
queerness/raciality are brought together in creative tension to disturb
these silences. The book explores queerness/raciality in the context of
the 'war on terror'; corporeal and social practices in and of
space;relations between visibility and politics; and cultural, literary,
linguistic and theoretical mechanisms of translation. The papers in the
book cut across academic theory, arts, activism, the media and everyday
life. All the contributors to _Out of Place_ address queerness/
raciality as a theoretical and political tool to analyse and challenge
their own fields, epistemologies and ontologies. This book is not just
about what happens at the intersection of 'queer' and 'race', but also
about how this intersection relates to and animates other aspects of life.
"_Out of Place_ is a bold collection of essays that teaches us to think
about what happens and can happen at the points where queerness and
raciality meet. These meeting points can be startling, powerful,
violent, oppressive and enabling. From reflections on forms of violence,
terror and security, to considerations of how whiteness coheres in
space, from accounts of the life worlds of queers and trans of colour,
to critical engagement with debates about methodology, experience and
activism, this book brings together some powerful new voices.The
landscape of queer and critical race studies might look quite different
if we listen well." Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race and Cultural Studies,
Goldsmiths, University of London
For table of contents, information on orders and other details please
visit the website http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace.html
*2. BOOK LAUNCH*
*Still out of Place? Conference and book launch
*7 November 2008, Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool, UK
You are cordially invited to the _/Out of Place: Interrogating Silences
in Queerness/Raciality/_ book launch. Come and meet some of the
outstanding authors who will re-address and re-open the burning issues
covered in this collection. We hope you will join in the open
discussions which will consider past, present, and future directions of
queerness/raciality. And of course, the much awaited book will be
available for you to take home.
For details on speakers, registration and directions please visit the
website http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace_booklaunch.html
--
*Dr. Adi Kuntsman*
Lecturer in Internet and Communication
School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts
Liverpool John Moores University
Dean Walters, 1 St. James Road
Liverpool, L1 7BR
Email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Web
<http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91728.htm>
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