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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820587703321

Autore

Shahani Nishant <1976->

Titolo

Queer retrosexualities [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of reparative return / / Nishant Shahani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethlehem, : Lehigh University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-65932-7

9786613636256

1-61146-099-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

306.76/60973

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Social aspects - United States

Queer theory - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theorizing Queer Retrosexualities; Chapter 01. Cutting up the "Dirty Dark Secret" Generation; Chapter 02. The Surface of Things in Far from Heaven; Chapter 03. Queer Retrospection and the Politics of American Studies; Chapter 04. "Shimmering" Backwards; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Queer Retrosexuality: The Politics of Reparative Return analyzes the cultural, theoretical, and political value of thinking about retrospection in conjunction with queerness. It historically grounds and exemplifies the call for a more "reparatively" informed queer theory in its contextualization of reparation through the return to the 1950s. The book thus contributes and furthers some of the dynamic conversations around the politics of queer temporality and historiography.