“At a moment when many had begun to worry that queer theory was becoming little more than a widespread litany of dogmas and slogans, this volume arrives as a wonderful surprise: not only because it reminds us what a contribution the varied intellectual currents grouped together under that rubric have been making-and for nearly twenty years now-to the renewal of our intellectual life; but also, and more importantly, because it shows to what a degree this theoretical effervescence lives on, and how powerfully productive it still is in all its characteristically marvelous variety.”-<b>Didier Eribon</b>, author of <i>Insult and the Making of the Gay Self</i> “[A] a kaleidoscopic collection that rotates around the personal-is-political-is-personal axis of denormativization. . . . Queer theory, in short, is alive and kicking. Having proliferated, branched out, and, so far, resisted ossification, it provides space for diversity and disagreement. Testifying to this, the contributions to <i>After Sex?</i> make an illuminating and, yes, entertaining read.” - Sylvia Mieszkowski (GLQ) “[T]he value of <i>After Sex?</i> resides in its unwavering commitment to show how the nuances of queer theory aid in making it a powerful form of scholarship and politics. And this motley crew of interdisciplinary scholars reflects the exact kind of bricolage that Cultural Studies argues is productive. More importantly, this book insists that troubling the lenses through which we see the world is imperative if scholars ever want to make sense of a conjuncture that is so complexly intersectional.” - Raechel Tiffe (Cultural Studies) “Together, the essays that make up this collection offer an engaging insight into the origins, development, expansiveness and potential problems of queer theory. <i>After Sex?</i> does not provide a straightforward, conclusive answer to its own ambiguous question, but then it would be somewhat queer – or, rather, unqueer – if it did.” (Forum for Modern Language Studies)
Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Michael Cobb, Ann Cvetkovich, Lee Edelman, Richard Thompson Ford, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Neville Hoad, Joseph Litvak, Heather Love, Michael Lucey, Michael Moon, JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz, Jeff Nunokawa, Andrew Parker, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Richard Rambuss, Erica Rand, Bethany Schneider, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kate Thomas
Genealogies of After
Queer Times / Carla Freccero 17
Still After / Elizabeth Freeman 27
After Thoughts / Jonathan Goldberg 34
Glad to Be Unhappy / Joseph Litvak 45
Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex? / Michael Moon 55
Post Sex: On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon / Kate Thomas 66
Affects and the (Anti-)Social
Starved / Lauren Berlant 79
Shame on You / Leo Bersani 91
Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social / Lee Edelman 110
Queering Identities
What's Queer about Race? / Richard Thompson Ford 121
Queer Theory Addiction / Neville Hoad 130
The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep / José Esteban Muñoz 142
Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack's American Indian and Queer Studies / Bethany Schneider 151
Lesbian and Gay after Queer
Public Feelings / Ann Cvetkovich 169
Queers ________ This / Heather Love 180
After Male Sex / Richard Rambuss 192
Neither Freud nor Foucault?
Lonely / Michael Cobb 207
When? Where? What? / Michael Lucey 221
Queer Theory: Postmortem / Jeff Nunokawa 245
Disturbing Sexuality / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 257
After Sex?! / Erica Rand 270
After After Sex?
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 283
Contibutors 303
Index 307
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy, also published by Duke University Press.
Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College and the editor of Jacques RanciÈre’s The Philosopher and His Poor, also published by Duke University Press.