Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature
garnall@umich.eduOffice Information:
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Romance Languages & Literatures; Tenure-track; Spanish; Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD and MA in Comparative Literature, Princeton UniversityBA in the College Scholar Program (Summa Cum Laude) and Philosophy, Cornell University
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change
by Gavin Arnall
Frantz Fanon has reemerged as the radical thinker of the twenty-first century. We turn to Fanon to understand interminable global racism, state violence, and capitalism’s ability to weather ongoing crises. But which Fanon? The dialectical thinker who imagined a new humanity emerging from the shell of the old antagonisms? Or the nondialectical thinker who called for the complete and total destruction of colonial structures of oppression, who imagined with almost eschatological fury a new beginning from the ashes of the old world? Gavin Arnall’s provocative and superb study insists that...
See MoreAlthusser, The Infinite Farewell
“Emilio de Ípola's Althusser, The Infinite Farewell is one of the most important books ever written on Althusser, not least because it offers a reading of Althusser from a perspective that is neither European nor North American. De Ípola's account brings structuralism to life and demonstrates the relevance of structuralism's questions and problems to our own time. De Ípola suggests that, seen from Latin America, reading and understanding Althusser is not a return to the past, but a confrontation with the most profound contradictions of the present.” — Warren Montag, author of, Althusser and ...
See MoreUNIVERSALITY AND TRANSLATION Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics
Gavin Arnall and Katie Chenoweth
"Universality and Translation is a groundbreaking book that reshapes our understanding of universality, offering fresh insights and tools for bridging fields and perspectives. Through thought-provoking essays, it introduces a revolutionary approach to the idea and practice of translation that redefines the very essence of universality. Scholars and students across disciplines, from history to literature, postcolonial studies to political theory, will find invaluable critical insights within this volume."-- Massimiliano Tomba, University of California...
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