INTRODUCTION:
Tina Chanter and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
I. FEMININITY, RACE, AND REVOLT
1. Julia Kristeva and the Revolutionary Politics of Tel Quel
Joan Brandt
2. From Revolution to Revolt Culture
Sara Beardsworth
3. Kristeva and Fanon: Revolutionary Violence and Ironic Articulation
Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
4. Revolt and Forgiveness
Kelly Oliver
II. AFFECT, COMMUNITY, POLITICS
5. The Skin of the Community: Affect and Boundary Formation
Sara Ahmed
6. Bearing Witness in the Polis: Kristeva, Arendt, and the Space of Appearance
Noëlle McAfee
7. Political Affections: Kristeva and Arendt on Violence and Gratitude
Peg Birmingham
III. ABJECTION, FILM, AND MELANCHOLIA
8. The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject Objections
Tina Chanter
9. On the Border between Abjection and the Third: The (Re)Birth of Narcissus in the Works of Julia Kristeva
Pleshette DeArmitt
10. Black and Blue: Kieslowski's Melancholia
Frances L. Restuccia
Contributors
Index