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Leo Bersani
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Leo Bersani

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-14
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies. For more than fifty years, Leo Bersani’s writing has inspired and challenged scholars in the fields of literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and film and visual studies. This is the first book-length collection on this important author. The book’s extensive introduction outlines in detail Bersani’s oeuvre, particularly its place in queer thought and his complicated relationships with the fields of queer theory and psychoanalysis. The subsequent contributions by notable scholars in various fields demonst...

Umbr(a): Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Umbr(a): Writing

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Umbr(a): Sameness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Umbr(a): Sameness

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The Essentialist Villain
  • Language: en

The Essentialist Villain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-02
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  • Publisher: Suny Press

The first book-length study of Bersani's work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

The Lives of Objects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

The Lives of Objects

Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment—relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche—and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.

The Integration of Language and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Integration of Language and Society

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. It draws on data from a range of diverse languages to examine how aspects of grammar such as honorifics and possessives relate to societal practices. It will be a valuable resource for typologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists

Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-13
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison’s novels. Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts radically intervenes in one of the most established and sacred topics in Toni Morrison scholarship, love. Moving beyond Morrison’s representation of ghosts as the forgotten or occluded past, Juda Bennett uncovers how Morrison imagines the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provocation and challenge to heteronormativity—with the ghost appearing as an active participant in disruptions of compulsory heterosexuality, as a figure embodying closet desires, or as a disembodied emanation that counterpoints homophobia. From The Bluest Eye to Home, Morrison’s novels have included ...

Kinship Across the Black Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Kinship Across the Black Atlantic

This book combines insights from postcolonial, queer and diaspora studies to consider the meanings of kinship in contemporary black Atlantic fiction. Diasporic displacement generates new understandings and new narratives of kinship. An analysis of kinship is thus essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Indecent Exposure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Indecent Exposure

Nicole Nolan Sidhu explores the varied functions of obscene comedy in the literacy and visual culture of 14th and 15th century England

Lost Causes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Lost Causes

Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology.