Unpayable Debt
Unpayable Debt

by Denise Ferreira da Silva

Auteur(s)
Denise Ferreira da Silva.
Uitgever
London : Sternberg, 2022
Omvang
328 p., 21 cm.
ISBN
9783956795428

In ‘Unpayable Debt’ Ferreira da Silva examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist “poethical” perspective. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel ‘Kindred’, in which an African-American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, Ferreira da Silva relates the notion of value to coloniality - both economic and ethical. Focusing on the philosophy behind value, the writer exposes capital as the juridical architecture and ethical grammar of the world. Here, raciality - a symbol of coloniality -justifies deployments of total violence to enable expropriation and land extraction.


Trefwoorden
critical aesthetics , feminism , racism , decolonisation
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past
Opmerkingen
Includes notes, bibliography, index