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Capitalist Modernity, Dissident Metaphors

Subversive Strategy in Transatlantic Literatures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Capitalist Modernity, Dissident Metaphors analyzes expressive commonalities across dissident cultures in the contemporary transatlantic.This book coheres around the shared use of subversive metaphors in Africa and the Americas, offering a close study of selected texts from Nigeria, Peru, and the United States. Montesano articulates his view of texts as speech-producing social actors, engaging racial capitalist theory as an essential context for his global comparative analysis.Through readings of works by James Baldwin, Joy Harjo, Ralph Ellison, Alonso Cueto, Ogaga Ifowodo, and Sonia Sanchez in collaboration with Sweet Honey in the Rock, the project investigates the political significance of subversive arts on the one hand, and the mediated nature of their impact on the other hand.In its scrutiny of literature’s capacities and its constraints within the political sphere, this book helps artists, educators, and general readers make better use of its powers.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-31
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Literary Studies in Social Justice
Antal sidor172
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032795522

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Michael C. Montesano (PhD, Indiana University) was a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at Princeton’s University’s Program in African Studies from 2022 to 2024. His peer-reviewed articles and book chapters have appeared in the Journal of the African Literature Association, Research in African Literatures, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, and New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers.

Introduction: Subversive Tropes, Critical Theories, and their Movements, Chapter 1: Peace is War: Dissident Figurations in the Racial Capitalist Atlantic, Chapter 2: White Supremacy’s Basic Duplicity: Society’s War in Ralph Ellison’s Essays, Narrative Irony in Invisible Man, Chapter 3: Alonso Cueto’s Narrative Mediations: Racial Fluidity, Sexual Violence, and Reconciliation’s Impasse in La hora azul, Chapter 4: The Hangman Gets the Last Word: Reflexive Subversions of Petro-imperialism in Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp, Chapter 5: Womanist Poetry as Emancipatory Imaginary: “Stay on the Battlefield” by Sonia Sanchez and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Epilogue—After Speech: Freedom Dreaming Beyond the Text Bibliography