Queer Art of Failure

Informationen zum Autor Jack Halberstam Klappentext Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films. Zusammenfassung Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Low Theory 1 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27 2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53 3. The Queer Art of Failure 87 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123 5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147 6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173 Notes 189 Bibliography 193 Index 201

Product details

• Authors: Jack Halberstam, Judith Halberstam, Halberstam Judith
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2011
• EAN: 9780822350286
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5028-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works