Europe’s Crisis: Reconsidering Solidarity with Leela Gandhi and Judith Butler

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Published: May 1, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16231
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Europe crisis community solidarity Leela Gandhi Judith Butler
Giovanna Covi
Università degli Studi di Trento/University of Trento
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Author Biography
Giovanna Covi, Università degli Studi di Trento/University of Trento
Giovanna Covi teaches American Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Trento. More recently, she has authored Jamaica Kincaid's Prismatic Subjects (2003); edited and co-authored Interculturality and Gender (2009), Caribbean-Scottish Relations (2007), Modernist Women Race Nation (2006); co-edited Democracy and Difference: the US in Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives(2012), Gendered Ways of Knowing in Science: Scope and Limitations (2012); contributed to Journal of Contemporary Thought, Modern Fiction Studies, the volumes Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid (2008), Literatures in English: Priorities of Research (2008), From English Literature to Literatures in English (2005).  
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