Lee Edelman

Bad Education

Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

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Produktbeschreibung

Lee Edelman offers a sweeping theorization of queerness as one of the many names for the void around and against which the social order takes shape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015970
• ISBN-10: 1478015977
• Artikelnr.: 63240988

Autorenporträt

Lee Edelman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xxi
Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and
Afropessimism  1
1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education  45
2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That’s Out of Joint  93
3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic Education  123
4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs’s Negativity  162
Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility  207
Notes  261
Bibliography  317
Index  333