UID:
almahu_9949546539802882
Format:
1 online resource (376 p.)
ISBN:
9781478023227
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9783110766912
Series Statement:
Theory Q : 8
Content:
Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of "the queer," the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education's response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan's "ab-sens" and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory's engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Nothing Ventured: --
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1. Learning Nothing: --
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2. Against Survival: --
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3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: --
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4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: --
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coda. Nothing Gained: --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
Duke University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766912
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
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EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478018629
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478023227
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478023227?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478023227
