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Queer Objects

Queer Objects

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Series: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities

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ISBN10: 036772944X
ISBN13: 9780367729448
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 220
Language: English

Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer modes of being.



In the early 1990s the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined queer as multiply transitive . . . relational and strange, rather than a fixed identity. In spite of this, much of the queer theoretical scholarship of the last three decades has used queer as a synonym for anti-normative sexual identities. The contributions to this volume return to the idea of transitivity, exploring what happens when queer is thought of as a turning toward or turning away from a diverse range of objects, including bodily waste; frozen cats; archival ephemera; the writing of Virginia Woolf; the Pop art of Ray Johnson; the podcast S-Town; and Maggie Nelson's memoir The Argonauts.

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