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70 produkter
Monstrous Intimacies
Making Post-Slavery Subjects
Inbunden, 2010
1179 kr
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Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” …
Global Divas
Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Häftad, 2003
521 kr
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A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay …
Impossible Desires
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Häftad, 2005
300 kr
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By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and …
Pedagogies of Crossing
Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Häftad, 2006
325 kr
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M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race …
Performance in America
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
Av David Román
Häftad, 2005
651 kr
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Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David RomÁn challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are …
Interventions Into Modernist Cultures
Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
Häftad, 2007
584 kr
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Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, …
Desiring China
Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Av Lisa Rofel
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is …
Desiring China
Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Av Lisa Rofel
Häftad, 2007
384 kr
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Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is …
Witch's Flight
The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Av Kara Keeling
Häftad, 2007
304 kr
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Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”-not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as …
Monstrous Intimacies
Making Post-Slavery Subjects
Häftad, 2010
466 kr
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Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” …
Thiefing Sugar
Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women is …
Time Binds
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation …
Time Binds
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Häftad, 2010
285 kr
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Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation …
So Much Wasted
Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Häftad, 2010
523 kr
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In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in …
IVenceremos?
The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks, the …
Strange Affinities
The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
Av Grace Kyungwon Hong, Roderick A. Ferguson
Häftad, 2011
440 kr
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Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of …
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Inbunden, 2011
1318 kr
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In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence …
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence …
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Av Mel Y. Chen
Inbunden, 2012
1207 kr
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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the …
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Av Mel Y. Chen
Häftad, 2012
312 kr
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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the …
Safe Space
Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Häftad, 2013
338 kr
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Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top …
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Av Marcia Ochoa
Inbunden, 2014
1569 kr
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Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss …
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Av Marcia Ochoa
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss …
View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Inbunden, 2014
1759 kr
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A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural …
View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Häftad, 2014
323 kr
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A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural …
Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Av Clare Sears
Inbunden, 2014
1272 kr
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In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, …
Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Av Clare Sears
Häftad, 2014
294 kr
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In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, …
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
On Liberal Governances of Mobility
Av Hagar Kotef
Inbunden, 2015
1430 kr
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We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom, Hagar Kotef examines the roles of …
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
On Liberal Governances of Mobility
Av Hagar Kotef
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom, Hagar Kotef examines the roles of …
Visual Occupations
Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
Häftad, 2015
352 kr
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In Visual Occupations Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how, and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of …
