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- Queer Times, Queer Becomings
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance. 'If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and performance. Whether in the contexts of psychoanalysis, the nineteenth-century discourses of evolution and racial sciences, or the daily rhythms of contemporary, familially oriented communities, queerness has always been marked by a peculiar untimeliness, by a lack of proper orientation in terms of time as much as social norms. Yet it is the skewed relation to the temporal norm that also gives queerness its singular hope. This is demonstrated by the essays collected here as they consider the ways in which queer theory has acknowledged, resisted, appropriated, or refused divergent models of temporality.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- p. vii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Queer Aesthetics
- pp. 25-46
- Bareback Time
- pp. 75-99
- No Second Chances
- pp. 101-119
- Happy Futures, Perhaps
- pp. 159-182
- Stein und Zeit
- pp. 233-256
- Mestiza Metaphysics
- pp. 259-294
- Return from the Future
- pp. 295-313
- Still Here
- pp. 315-332
- Keeping Time with Lesbians On Ecstasy
- pp. 333-344
- Contributors
- pp. 349-352
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438437743
MARC Record
OCLC
767670644
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No