No Future - Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Informationen zum Autor Lee Edelman is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory and Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire. Klappentext ""No Future" is a nuanced polemic, both ringingly clear in its aesthetic and theoretical explications and simply thrilling to read. I learn so much from the way Lee Edelman grounds a queer ethics and politics outside kinship and reproductive circuits, those spaces of assimilation that use the bribe of futurity to distract us from the ongoing work of social violence and death."--Lauren Berlant, author of "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship" Zusammenfassung Prominent theorist rethinks the psychoanalytic assumptions underlying queer theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix 1. The Future Is Kid Stuff 1 2. Sinthomosexuality 33 3. Compassion’s Compulsion 67 4. No Future 111 Notes 155 Index 183

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lee Edelman
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.12.2004
• EAN: 9780822333692
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3369-2
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 147 mm x 233 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: Series Q
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche