Derrida and Queer Theory edited by Christian Hite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hite, Christian, Editor.

Contributor:

Hite, Christian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2017

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Coming from behind (derriere)--how else to describe a volume called "Derrida and Queer Theory"? -- as if arriving late to the party, or, indeed, after the party is already over. After all, we already have Deleuze and Queer Theory and, of course, Saint Foucault. And judging by Annamarie Jagose's Queer Theory: An Introduction, in which there is not a single mention of "Derrida" (or "deconstruction") -- even in the sub-chapter titled "The Post-Structuralist Context of Queer" -- one would think that Derrida was not only late to the party, but was never there at all. This untimely volume, then, with wide-ranging essays from key thinkers in the field, addresses, among other things, what could be called the disavowed debt to "Derrida" in canonical "queer theory."

Contents:

The gift from (of the) "behind" (Derriere): intro-extro-duction / Christian Hite

Perposturous preface: Derrida and queer discours / J. Hillis Miller.

Impossible uncanniness: deconstruction and queer theory / Nicolas Royle

No kingdom of the queer / Calvin Thomas

Derrida and the question of "woman" / Sarah Dillon

Les chats de Derrida / Carla Freccero.

Derrida's queer root(s) / Jarrod Hayes

Deco-pervo-struction / Eamonn Dunne

A man for all seasons: Derrida-cum-"queer theory," or The limits of "performativity" / Alexander Garcia Duttmann

"Practical deconstruction": a note on some notes by Judith Butler / Martin McQuillan

Performing friendship / Linnell Secomb

Postface: Just queer / Geoffrey B ennington

Appendix: Supreme Court (1988) . David Wills.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780998531892

OCLC:

1112361297

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access