Disturbing Attachments
Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2017
272 pages
978-0-8223-7259-2 (ISBN)
Description
Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing.
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Kadji Amin is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Attachment Genealogies of Pederastic Modernity 19
2. Light of a Dead Star: The Nostalgic Modernity of Prison Pederasty 45
3. Racial Fetishism, Gay Liberation, and the Temporalities of the Erotic 76
4. Pederastic Kinship 109
5. Enemies of the State: Terrorism, Violence, and the Affective Politics of Transnational Coalition 141
Epilogue. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories 176
Notes 191
Bibliography 235
Index 249
Introduction 1
1. Attachment Genealogies of Pederastic Modernity 19
2. Light of a Dead Star: The Nostalgic Modernity of Prison Pederasty 45
3. Racial Fetishism, Gay Liberation, and the Temporalities of the Erotic 76
4. Pederastic Kinship 109
5. Enemies of the State: Terrorism, Violence, and the Affective Politics of Transnational Coalition 141
Epilogue. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories 176
Notes 191
Bibliography 235
Index 249
