Edelman Bad Education

Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2322-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Theory Q

Lee Edelman offers a sweeping theorization of queerness as one of the many names for the void around and against which the social order takes shape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edelman, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism 1
1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education 45
2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That’s Out of Joint 93
3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic Education 123
4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs’s Negativity 162
Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility 207
Notes 261
Bibliography 317
Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and coauthor, with Lauren Berlant, of Sex, or the Unbearable, both also published by Duke University Press.