Liu Petrus Liu

Specter of Materialism (eBook, PDF)

Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism's contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism 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. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478024057
• Artikelnr.: 72421134

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