Lee Edelman

Bad Education

Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015970
• ISBN-10: 1478015977
• Artikelnr.: 63240988

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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