Queer times, queer becomings / edited by E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCallum, E. L. (Ellen Lee)

Tuhkanen, Mikko, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in literature.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Time in literature.

Time in motion pictures.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homosexuality and motion pictures.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

ix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2011]

Summary:

If queer theorists have agreed on anything, it is that for queer thought to have any specificity at all, it must be characterized by becoming, the constant breaking of habits. Queer Times, Queer Becomings explores queer articulations of time and becoming in literature, philosophy, film, and performance. Whether in the contexts of psychoanalysis, the nineteenth-century discourses of evolution and racial sciences, or the daily rhythms of contemporary, familially oriented communities, queerness has always been marked by a peculiar untimeliness, by a lack of proper orientation in terms of time as much as social norms. Yet it is the skewed relation to the temporal norm that also gives queerness its singular hope. This is demonstrated by the essays collected here as they consider the ways in which queer theory has acknowledged, resisted, appropriated, or refused divergent models of temporality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Intimacies of Time

Queer Aesthetics / Claire Colebrook Colebrook, Claire 25

Sedgwick's Twisted Temporalities, "or even just reading and writing" / Jane Gallop Gallop, Jane 47

Bareback Time / Tim Dean Dean, Tim 75

No Second Chances / David Marriott Marriott, David 101

Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come: Velvet Goldmine's Queer Archive / Dana Luciano Luciano, Dana 121

Part II Looking ahead to the Postfutural

Happy Futures, Perhaps / Sara Ahmed Ahmed, Sara 159

Close Reading the Present: Eudora Welty's Queer Politics / Lloyd Pratt Pratt, Lloyd 183

"My Spirit's Posthumeity" and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom! / Kevin Ohi Ohi, Kevin 205

Stein und Zeit / E. L. McCallum McCallum, E. L. 233

Part III Chronic Anachronisms

Mestiza Metaphysics / Mikko Tuhkanen Tuhkanen, Mikko 259

Return from the Future: James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography / Valerie Rohy Rohy, Valerie 295

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, AIDS / Steven Bruhm Bruhm, Steven 315

Keeping Time with Lesbians On Ecstasy / Judith Halberstam Halberstam, Judith 333

Rhythm / Kathryn Bond Stockton Stockton, Kathryn Bond 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438437729

1438437722

9781438437736

1438437730

OCLC:

701242510