Jacob Breslow

Ambivalent Childhoods

Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what "the child" makes possible"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 215mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781517908225
• ISBN-10: 1517908221
• Artikelnr.: 60981515

Autorenporträt

Jacob Breslow is assistant professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Wish for Childhood
1. Disavowing Black Childhood: Trayvon Martin, Adolescent Citizenship, and
Anti-Blackness
2. Transphobia as Projection: Trans Childhoods and the Psychic Brutality of
Gender
3. Desiring the Child: Queerness, Motherhood, and the Analyst
4. Undocumented Dream-Work: Intergenerational Migrant Aesthetics and the
Parricidal Violence of the Border
Afterword: Ambivalence and Loss 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index