Wild Things
The Disorder of Desire
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2020
240 pages
978-1-4780-1262-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Queer Art of Failure and Female Masculinity, both also published by Duke University Press, and Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I. Sex in the Wild
Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature 3
1. Wildness, Loss, and Death 33
2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and and Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment 51
3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry 77
Part II. Animality
Introduction. Into the Wild 115
4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children 125
5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World 147
Conclusions. The Ninth Wave 175
Notes 181
Bibliography 201
Index 211
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I. Sex in the Wild
Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature 3
1. Wildness, Loss, and Death 33
2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and and Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment 51
3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry 77
Part II. Animality
Introduction. Into the Wild 115
4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children 125
5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World 147
Conclusions. The Ninth Wave 175
Notes 181
Bibliography 201
Index 211
