1st Edition
Capitalist Modernity, Dissident Metaphors Subversive Strategy in Transatlantic Literatures
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
Biography
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.
