Long Term

Essays on Queer Commitment
Herausgeber: Herring, Scott

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014232
• ISBN-10: 1478014237
• Artikelnr.: 60141766

Autorenporträt

Scott Herring and Lee Wallace, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey / E. Patrick Johnson  vii
Introduction: A Theory of the Long Term / Scott Herring and Lee Wallace  1
1. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory /
Elizabeth Freeman  25
2. Loss and the Long Term / Amy Villarejo  46
3. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure / Sally R. Munt  63
4. A Lifetime of Drugs / Kane Race  89
5. Death Do Us Part / Carla Freccero  117
6. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little
Life / Scott Herring  134
7. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment of Volunteer / Amy Jamgochian 
155
8. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction / Jaya
Keaney  175
9. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term / Lisa Adkins and Maryanne
Dever  199
10. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover / Annemarie Jagose
and Lee Wallace  223
11. The Long Run / Heather Love  250
Contributors  267
Index  271