Madoka Kishi

The Suicidal State (eBook, ePUB)

Race Suicide, Biopower, and the Sexuality of Population

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through mapping the entwinement between the turn-of-the-century nativist discourse, race suicide, and the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive-Era literature, The Suicidal State asks what kind of agency, subjectivity, and intimacies suicide could forge in its undoing of the selfhood. Prefiguring the twenty-first-century white nationalist discourse replacement theory, race suicide imagined the white race's declining birthrate as a sign of its imminent extinction, sparking anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation. Suicidal figures in period literature, this book argues, symptomatically enact race suicide to short-circuit the imperatives of racial reproduction and self-preservation, instead gesturing toward new erotic relationalities and pleasures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197690093
• Artikelnr.: 72260530

Autorenporträt

Madoka Kishi is a Professional in Residence in English at Louisiana State University. She has translated Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Touching Feeling (Takanashi-shobo, 2022) and co-translated Judith Butler's Parting Ways (Seido-sha, 2019) into Japanese. She has published essays in the Journal of American Studies, The Henry James Review, and the Journal of Modern Literature and is currently co-translating Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism for Kadensha (forthcoming, 2024).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Sacrificial Ecstasy: The Bostonians, Neurasthenia, and the
"Obscure Hurt"
* 2. Flirting with Death: The Awakening's Liberal Economy and the
Consuming Desire of New Women
* 3. The Spectral Lineage: Jack London, Teutonism, and Interspecies
Kinship
* 4. Gertrude Stein's Melting Pot: Jewishness and the Excretory
Pleasure of The Making of Americans
* Coda: Hindsight 20/20, or Asiatic Im-personality
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index