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Queer Times, Queer Becomings

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1-4384-3774-9, 978-1-4384-3773-6, 978-1-4384-3772-9, 978-1-4384-3774-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3525102 bytes)
Pages
374\374
Time added
2016-03-18 01:34:25

Description

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.

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