E-book
The queer art of failure [electronic resource] / Judith Halberstam.
Record details
- ISBN: 9786613266118
- ISBN: 6613266116
- ISBN: 9780822394358 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0822394359 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 211 p.) : ill. (some col.)
- Publisher: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A John Hope Franklin Center Book." Description based on print version record |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : low theory -- Animating revolt and revolting animation -- Dude, where's my phallus? forgetting, losing, looping -- The queer art of failure -- Shadow feminisms : queer negativity and radical passivity -- "The killer in me is the killer in you" : homosexuality and fascism -- Animating failure: ending, fleeing, surviving. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
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| Subject: | Social epistemology. Failure (Psychology) Stupidity. Queer theory. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Electronic resources
- Duke Univ PrThe Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesâto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes âlow theoryâ as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose oneâs way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to animated childrenâs films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.
- Duke Univ PrProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films.
