Wild Things

Auteur

Jack Halberstam

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In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries-from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement-to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things, Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.

Contenu

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I. Sex in the Wild
Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature 3

1. Wildness, Loss, and Death 33
2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and and Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment 51
3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry 77
   Part II. Animality
   Introduction. Into the Wild 115
4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children 125
5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World 147
   Conclusions. The Ninth Wave 175
   Notes 181
   Bibliography 201
   Index 211