Lauren Berlant

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City

Essays on Sex and Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Series Q
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780822319245
• ISBN-10: 0822319241
• Artikelnr.: 21957533

Autorenporträt

Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of Critical Inquiry and Public Culture and author of The Anatomy of National Fantasy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere 1
1 The Theory of Infantile Citizenship 25
2 Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 55
3 America, "Fat," the Fetus 83
4 Queer Nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) 145
5 The Face of America and the State of Emergency 175
6 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship
221
7 Outtakes from the Citizenship Museum 247
Notes 261
Bibliography 289
Index 303