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Animacies : biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect / Mel Y. Chen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Mel Y., 1969-
- Series:
- Perverse modernities.
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Animacy.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Ontology.
- Perception.
- Biopolitics.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise ""wrong,"" animates cultural life in important ways.
- Contents:
- Language and mattering humans
- Queer animation
- Queer animality
- Animals, sex, and transsubstantiation
- Lead's racial matters
- Following mercurial affect.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613688446
- 9781280778056
- 1280778059
- 9780822395447
- 0822395444
- OCLC:
- 801926473
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