Author: E. L. McCallum
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Author: E. L. McCallum
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438437749
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and performance. Whether in the contexts of psychoanalysis, the nineteenth-century discourses of evolution and racial sciences, or the daily rhythms of contemporary, familially oriented communities, queerness has always been marked by a peculiar untimeliness, by a lack of proper orientation in terms of time as much as social norms. Yet it is the skewed relation to the temporal norm that also gives queerness its singular hope. This is demonstrated by the essays collected here as they consider the ways in which queer theory has acknowledged, resisted, appropriated, or refused divergent models of temporality.

Author: Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348047
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theorys recent emphasis on loss and trauma.

Author: Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438454120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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For more than fifty years, Leo Bersani's writing has inspired and challenged scholars in the fields of literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and film and visual studies. This is the first book-length collection on this important author. The book's extensive introduction outlines in detail Bersani's oeuvre, particularly its place in queer thought and his complicated relationships with the fields of queer theory and psychoanalysis. The subsequent contributions by notable scholars in various fields demonstrate the richness and open-endedness of his work. The book concludes with a new interview with Bersani.

Author: Marla Brettschneider
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791468944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.

Author: Brian Joseph Gilley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271263
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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An intimate glimpse of how Two-Spirit (gay) Native men in Colorado and Oklahoma work to build cross-tribal networks of support as they search for acceptance within their own communities.

Author: Jack Halberstam
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350459
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div

Author: Richard O. Block
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143846956X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lover's Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of well-known texts by Shelley, Kleist, and Goethe, arguing that this early writing serves as a creative font for much of the subsequent work in sexology. These texts also provide echoes of a kind of love overlooked or suppressed in favor of a politics of appeasement or one intended to make queers model citizens. This book charts the unexplored possibilities for queer love in an attempt to map a future for gay politics in the age of homonormativity.

Author: Annamarie Jagose
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814742343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

Author: Kara Keeling
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814748325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom. Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra’s 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar “speculations” of corporate and financial institutions. In connecting a queer, cinematic reordering of time with the new possibilities technology offers, Keeling thinks with and through a vibrant conception of the imagination as a gateway to queer times and Black futures, and the previously unimagined spaces that they can conjure.