About the Author

Moira Fradinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She works on South American, Caribbean and European fiction and film; Anti-colonial and decolonial thought; classics in Latin America and the Caribbean; psychoanalytic theory, and gender studies. Fradinger recently translated six 20th-century Latin American vernacular Antigona plays into English. She is the author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of
Political Origins (2010).