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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Chen, Mel Y.

Paperback

Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and

PhilosophyGLBTQIA StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0822352729
ISBN13: 9780822352723
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 10 2012
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.

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