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For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided,
and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism,
queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and
visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko
Tuhkanen seeks out the “fundamental notes”—the questions that
we find and refind—in Bersani’s extensive oeuvre across the
decades. The chapters explore Bersani’s engagement with
psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and
American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James,
Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze,
Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual
arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). This first
introduction to Bersani's work provides a chronological overview of
his thought and details his contributions to literary studies and
critical theory.
For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided,
and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism,
queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and
visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko
Tuhkanen seeks out the “fundamental notes”—the questions that
we find and refind—in Bersani’s extensive oeuvre across the
decades. The chapters explore Bersani’s engagement with
psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and
American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James,
Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze,
Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual
arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). This first
introduction to Bersani's work provides a chronological overview of
his thought and details his contributions to literary studies and
critical theory.
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a
global history of the field. It is an unprecedented summation of
critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also
addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate
fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies.
Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism,
diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this
volume is grounded in current scholarship. It presents new critical
approaches to gay and lesbian literature that will serve the needs
of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in
the field, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature will
not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a
definitive reference for gay and lesbian literature for years to
come.
The American Optic charts new territory in the relationship of
psychoanalysis to critical race studies by exploring the political
and ethical implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for African
American and other diasporic African cultural production. Focusing
on texts by Richard Wright and Jacques Lacan, Mikko Tuhkanen
develops a theory of "racialization" that recasts the genealogy of
the Western concept of racial difference in critical race theory in
terms of the Lacanian argument about the role of the scopic drive
in constituting the human subject. By engaging a wide array of
resources--including the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T.
Washington, Frantz Fanon, narratives of nineteenth-century slaves,
and studies of blackface minstrelsy--Tuhkanen not only illuminates
unexpectedly rich connections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and
black literary and cultural studies, but also demonstrates the ways
in which the artistic and political traditions of the African
diaspora allow us to rethink and even reinvent the Lacanian ethics
of becoming.
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