Bad Education
Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2022
376 pages
978-1-4780-2322-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lee Edelman offers a sweeping theorization of queerness as one of the many names for the void around and against which the social order takes shape.
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01/2023
Duke University Press
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Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and coauthor, with Lauren Berlant, of Sex, or the Unbearable, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism 1
1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education 45
2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint 93
3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic Education 123
4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs's Negativity 162
Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility 207
Notes 261
Bibliography 317
Index 333
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Nothing Ventured: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Afropessimism 1
1. Learning Nothing: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education 45
2. Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint 93
3. Funny/Peculiar/Queer: Michael Haneke's Aesthetic Education 123
4. There Is No Freedom to Enjoy: Harriet Jacobs's Negativity 162
Coda: Nothing Gained: Irony, Incest, Indiscernibility 207
Notes 261
Bibliography 317
Index 333
