Liu The Specter of Materialism

Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2405-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Petrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Petrus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1
Part I: Theory
1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21
2. The Specter of Materialism 52
Part II: History
3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81
4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104
5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135
Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 195
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.