Queer times, queer becomings
By: edited by E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781438437729; 9781438437736
Subjects: Time in motion pictures; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Time in literature; Homosexuality and literature; Homosexuality in literature; Queer theory; Homosexuality and motion pictures
Description: "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."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Becoming unbecoming: untimely mediations / E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen; title: Queer aesthetics / Claire Colebrook; title: Sedgwick's twisted temporalities, "or even just reading and writing"; title: Jane Gallop; title: Bareback time / Tim Dean; title: No second chances / David Marriott; title: Nostalgia for an age yet to come: Velvet Goldmine's queer archive / Dana Luciano; title: Happy futures, perhaps / Sara Ahmed; title: Close reading the present: Eudora Welty's queer politics / Lloyd Pratt; title: "My spirit's posthumeity" and the sleeper's outflung hand: queer transmission in Absalom, absalom! / Kevin Ohi; title: Stein un Zeit / E.L. McCallum; title: Mestiza metaphysics / Mikko Tuhkanen; title: Return from the future: James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography / Valerie Rohy; title: Still here: choreography, temporality, AIDS / Steven Bruhm; title: Keeping time with lesbians on ecstasy / Judith Halberstam; title: Rhythm / Kathryn Bond Stockton.