Sara Salih

Mary Seacole

Tells the story of a Jamaican woman who arrived in London, offered to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War, and set out independently to the Crimea when her offer was met with refusal and racism.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

Judith Butler

The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and Sara Salih Collects together writings that span Butler’s impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works Includes an introduction and editorial material to assist students in their readings of theories that stand at the forefront of contemporary theoretical and political debates

The Judith Butler Reader

Pensadora contemporânea instigante e provocativa, Judith Butler vem questionando e perturbando a forma como pensamos o sexo, a sexualidade, o gênero e a linguagem. Sua obra, para além dos estudos feministas, gays, lésbicos e queer, vem exercendo enorme influência sobre uma série de campos teóricos e disciplinares. Neste livro, Sara Salih constrói uma espécie de ponto de partida para a leitura de Butler. Sem descaracterizar o tom de abertura e indeterminação que marca o pensamento da teórica, Salih analisa seus trabalhos-chave e os situa em seus contextos teórico, filosófico e político . Examina, igualmente, o impacto de suas ideias, os debates e as críticas que elas têm suscitado e, por fim, oferece um roteiro sugestivo de leituras complementares. Um livro inestimável para quem busca se aproximar da obra de Judith Butler.

Judith Butler e a Teoria Queer

This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might be called subject-constituting statutes, along with the potential for force and violence which necessarily undergird the law. The author explores the role legal and non-legal discourse plays in disciplining the brown body in pre- and post-Abolition colonial contexts, as well as how are other bodies and identities – e.g. black, white are discursively disciplined. Salih examines whether or not it's possible to say that non-legal texts such as prose fictions are engaged in this kind of discursive disciplining, and more broadly, looks at what contemporary formulations of "mixed" identity owe to these legal or non-legal discursive formations. This study demonstrates the striking connections between historical and contemporary discourses of race and brownness and argues for a shift in the ways we think about, represent and discuss "mixed race" people.

Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present

Marcus Wood

Deirdre Coleman

Diana Paton

Felicity Nussbaum

Maroula Joannou

George Boulukos

Lincoln Shlensky

Gerald M. MacLean

Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807

Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition

Penguin Classics Introduction to Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole (Penguin Classics)

This introduction places Butler's ideas in their theoretical and philosophical contexts, analyzing her key works and their impact on contemporary thought.

Fiona Macdonald

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