Reparations and the Human

"No other work demonstrates the critical relevance of psychoanalysis to justice more powerfully than David L. Eng's Reparations and the Human. Animating the intersections of postcolonial American studies, Black feminist and Indigenous critique of sovereignty, law, and the human, and Transpacific Cold War critique, Eng theorizes the psychic dimension of reparation with deep literary insight. A book anyone seeking a way beyond the nomos of the post-Enlightenment planet must read." - Lisa Yoneyama, author of (Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes) "David L. Eng upends previous assumptions about what reparation is, showing how the very category of the human is structured by whether subjects are worthy of reparation. A brilliant, creative, learned, and utterly compelling book." - Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, University of California, Berkeley School of Law