Chris Ingraham’s Gestures of Concern considers how affective communities can be built by and through concerned gestures. His analysis of the political power of a range of these gestures—from the small tokens of get-well cards to the political protests against shuttered public resources such as libraries—emphasizes their affect as much as their action. Ingraham pays attention to the background of concerned gestures that are political, aesthetic, and community-based, and his analysis of their efficacy and their impact draws readers to consider different kinds of critical resistance in the face of growing social disparities.
Articles by Nicole Dib
Nicole Dib is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Southern Utah University. She specializes in contemporary American literature, comparative ethnic approaches to literary studies, critical race studies, and road-trip narratives. Her teaching and research intersect several fields in the humanities, drawing from literary studies, cultural studies, mobility studies, and ethnic studies. Her scholarly work appears or is forthcoming in MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the United States, Feminism and Comics: New Essays on Interpretation, The Routledge Companion to Critical Masculinity Studies, and Teaching the Classics in the US Prison System.