Description: Further DetailsTitle: No FutureCondition: NewEAN: 9780822333692ISBN: 9780822333692Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/06/2004Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 146mmItem Weight: 272gAuthor: Lee EdelmanLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Queer Theory and the Death DriveISBN-10: 0822333694Description: In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself. Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Series QTopic: LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Films & TVRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: No Future
Title: No Future
EAN: 9780822333692
ISBN: 9780822333692
Release Date: 12/06/2004
Release Year: 2004
Subtitle: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
ISBN-10: 0822333694
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Series Q
Book Title: No Future : Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Lgbt Studies / General, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
Publication Year: 2004
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Author: Lee Edelman
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Book Series: Series Q Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
