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Bøker i Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe-serien

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  • - The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
    av Kara Keeling
    277 - 1 104,-

    Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour.

  • - Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
    av David Roman
    394 - 1 156,-

    Argues for the centrality of theatre and performance in the American national imaginary

  • - Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
    av Evren Savci
    276 - 1 339,-

    Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.

  • - The Disorder of Desire
    av Jack Halberstam
    312 - 1 098,-

    Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.

  • av Jose Esteban Munoz
    276 - 1 098,-

    The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.

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    1 227,-

    Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.

  • - Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
    av Aren Z. Aizura
    289 - 1 098,-

    Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.

  • - Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
    av Gil Z. Hochberg
    279 - 1 104,-

    Gil Z. Hochberg examines films, photography, painting and literature by Israeli and Palestinian artists. Israel's greater ability to control what can be seen, how, and from what position drives the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The artists Hochberg studies challenge Israel's visual and social dominance by creating new ways to see the conflict.

  • - Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
    av Ari Larissa Heinrich
    292 - 1 104,-

    Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production-from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.

  • - Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
    av Tan Hoang Nguyen
    384 - 1 387,-

    Rather than using displays of masculinity to counter portrayals of Asian American men as passive and effeminate, Nguyen Tan Hoang develops a concept of bottomhood that opens up political alliances based on risk, vulnerability, and receptiveness.

  • - Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
    av Marcia Ochoa
    407 - 1 111,-

    Considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.

  • - Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
    av Christina B. Hanhardt
    316 - 1 156,-

    A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.

  • - The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
     
    406,-

    A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.

  • - The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
     
    1 242,-

    A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.

  • - The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
    av Jafari S. Allen
    279 - 1 104,-

    A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century

  • - Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
    av Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
    292 - 1 137,-

    This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women.

  • - Making Post-Slavery Subjects
    av Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
    292 - 1 137,-

    Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.

  • - Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
    av Amie Elizabeth Parry
    343 - 1 078,-

    Offers an analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This book argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neo-colonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia.

  • - Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
    av Gayatri Gopinath
    290 - 1 104,-

    Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.

  • - Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
    av Martin F. Manalansan
    279 - 1 111,-

    Presents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity.

  • - Managing Masculinity in Asian America
    av David L. Eng
    303 - 1 156,-

    Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.

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    367,-

    Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.

  • - Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
    av Clare Sears
    266 - 1 084,-

  • - Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913
    av Victor Mendoza
    305 - 1 163,-

    In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.

  • - Race, Sexuality, and the US State
    av Chandan Reddy
    305 - 1 156,-

    Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.

  • - On Liberal Governances of Mobility
    av Hagar Kotef
    384 - 1 104,-

    Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.

  • - The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
    av Gayatri Gopinath
    276 - 1 098,-

    Gayatri Gopinath traces the interrelation of affect, aesthetics, and diaspora through an exploration of a wide range of contemporary queer visual cultural forms by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza.

  • - Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
    av M. Jacqui Alexander
    374 - 1 294,-

    A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race

  • - Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
    av Mel Y. Chen
    317 - 1 156,-

    Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.

  • - Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
    av Patrick Anderson
    264 - 1 078,-

    An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

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