Petrus Liu

The Specter of Materialism

Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

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Produktbeschreibung

Petrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusâ global capitalismâ s latest mutationâ to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016793
• ISBN-10: 1478016795
• Artikelnr.: 63732879

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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