|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer
kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a
contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism,
fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach
kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility.
The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore
the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism,
and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous
people and people of color. Among other topics, they examine the
"blood tie" as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday
experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in
Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial
India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state,
and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous
children as a technology of settler colonialism. Queer Kinship
pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer
theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship.
Contributors. Aqdas Aftab, Leah Claire Allen, Tyler Bradway,
Juliana Demartini Brito, Judith Butler, Dilara Caliskan,
Christopher Chamberlin, Aobo Dong, Brigitte Fielder, Elizabeth
Freeman, John S. Garrison, Nat Hurley, Joseph M. Pierce, Mark
Rifkin, Poulomi Saha, Kath Weston
This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective
relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Tyler
Bradway conceptualizes "bad reading" as an affective politics that
stimulates queer relations of erotic and political belonging in the
event of reading. These incipiently social relations press back
against legal, economic, and discursive forces that reduce
queerness into a mode of individuality. Each chapter traces the
affective politics of bad reading against moments when queer
relationality is prohibited, obstructed, or destroyed-from the
pre-Stonewall literary obscenity debates, through the AIDS crisis,
to the emergence of neoliberal homonormativity and the
gentrification of the queer avant-garde. Bradway contests the
common narrative that experimental writing is too formalist to
engender a mode of social imagination. Instead, he illuminates how
queer experimental literature uses form to redraw the affective and
social relations that structure the heteronormative public sphere.
Through close readings informed by affect theory, Queer
Experimental Literature offers new perspectives on writers such as
William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Jeanette
Winterson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alison Bechdel, and Chuck
Palahniuk. Queer Experimental Literature ultimately reveals that
the recent turn to affective reading in literary studies is
underwritten by a para-academic history of bad reading that offers
new idioms for understanding the affective agencies of queer
aesthetics.
The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer
kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a
contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism,
fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach
kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility.
The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore
the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism,
and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous
people and people of color. Among other topics, they examine the
"blood tie" as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday
experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in
Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial
India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state,
and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous
children as a technology of settler colonialism. Queer Kinship
pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer
theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship.
Contributors. Aqdas Aftab, Leah Claire Allen, Tyler Bradway,
Juliana Demartini Brito, Judith Butler, Dilara Caliskan,
Christopher Chamberlin, Aobo Dong, Brigitte Fielder, Elizabeth
Freeman, John S. Garrison, Nat Hurley, Joseph M. Pierce, Mark
Rifkin, Poulomi Saha, Kath Weston
After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated
queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that
continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice.
It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and
argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in
establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary
queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many
trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn,
the question of the subject, and the significance of social
categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging
between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection
initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer
studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of
literary interpretation and cultural practices.
After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated
queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that
continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice.
It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and
argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in
establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary
queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many
trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn,
the question of the subject, and the significance of social
categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging
between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection
initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer
studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of
literary interpretation and cultural practices.
|
|