Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and author of several books, including Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger. Ewa PÂonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and editor of Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, also published by SUNY Press.

INTRODUCTION:
Tina Chanter and Ewa Plonowska 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 Plonowska 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