Essays on Sex and Citizenship
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Köp båda 2 för 657 krBerlant offers a trenchant genealogy of the imaginary realm of citizenship, resituating cultural contests over sex, race, and nation as conflicts over the defining fantasies of public life. Few cultural critics move with as much skill and insight between debates over the public sphere and how best to read pornography. This text links the analytic concerns of cultural studies with the fugitive struggles over the imaginable bounds of citizenship. A keen and disarming book.Judith Butler Taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, The Reagan Years, Lauren Berlant makes an exhilarating argument for a theory of comedic citizenship. What happens when the collusive myths of the common culture become obsessed and estranged by the fraying and freeing of the American peopleplurally identified, demographically diverse, sexually ambivalent, culturally mongrel? Berlants wit and insight lie in going with the silliness of everyday existence, inhabiting its persuasive, popular forms, and then, in ways you least expect, throwing up a devastating picture of the way we live now.Homi K. Bhabha
Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of Critical Inquiry and Public Culture and author of The Anatomy of National Fantasy.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere 1 1 The Theory of Infantile Citizenship 25 2 Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 55 3 America, "Fat," the Fetus 83 4 Queer Nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) 145 5 The Face of America and the State of Emergency 175 6 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship 221 7 Outtakes from the Citizenship Museum 247 Notes 261 Bibliography 289 Index 303