The Queer Art of Failure

Informationen zum Autor Judith Halberstam is Professor of English! American Studies and Ethnicity! and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of "In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies! Subcultural Lives!" as well as" Female Masculinity" and "Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters!" both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films. Zusammenfassung Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction: Low Theory; 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation; 2. Dude! Where's My Phallus? Forgetting! Losing! Looping; 3. The Queer Art of Failure; 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity; 5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism; 6. Animating Failure: Ending! Fleeing! Surviving Notes; Bibliography; Index

Autorentext

Jack Halberstam

Klappentext

Prominent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films.

Zusammenfassung
Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

Inhalt

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Low Theory 1

1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27
2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53
3. The Queer Art of Failure 87
4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123
5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147
6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173
   Notes 189
   Bibliography 193
   Index 201