Rebellious mourning : the collective work of grief / edited by Cindy Milstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milstein, Cindy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mourning customs in literature.

American literature--21st century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chico, CA : AK Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is shared, and pain is reconfigured into a powerful force for social change and collective healing." Astra Taylor, author The People's Platform "A primary message here is that from tears comes the resolve for the struggle ahead." Ron Jacobs, author of Daydream Sunset "Rebellious Mourning uncovers the destruction of life that capitalist development leaves in its trail. But it is also witness to the power of grief as a catalyst to collective resistance." Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border crossings, and racism to rape, the intimate yet tenacious writing in this volume shows that mourning can pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, empathy and solidarity.

Contents:

Prologue: cracks in the wall / Cindy Milstein

Feeling is not weakness: on mourning and movement / Benji Hart

The condition of black life is one of mourning / Claudia Rankine

Dust of the desert / Lee Sandusky

Her brother / Syed Hussan

It takes an ocean not to break / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Your grief is my grave / Kai Cheng Thom

Fragments towards a whole / Kevin Yuen Kit Lo

Lungful of mountain / Wren Awry

To the lights that never went out / Natasha Tamate Weiss

Rages of Fukushima and grief in a no-future present / Mari Matsumoto

Cracks in my universe / A. J. Withers

In self-defense, in defense of memory / Mirtha Luz Perez Robledo

Altars for the dead in a land without cemeteries / Fernadndo Marti

To mourn and strike / Jeff Clark

Justice and love for Alex Nieto / Refugio and Elvira Nieto

The gentrification of AIDS / Sarah Schulman

Grief and organizing in the face of repression: the fight against AIDS in prison / David Gilbert

Postcards from America: X rays from Hell / David Wojnarowicz

Nansi Cisneros, a sister whose pain and demand for justice knows no borders / Nidia Nelissa Bautista

What is possible / Harmony Hazard

"They could be my grandchildren" / Andalusia Knoll Soloff

Fighting to bury their children: on the necropolitcs of occupation / Budour Hassan

Ghost stories: rock, paper, ashes / Cindy Milstein

Seeds beneath the snow: anarchists morn our dead / Patrick O'Donoghue.

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ISBN:

9781849352857

1849352852

OCLC:

1015879853