04842oam 22007574 450 991081371260332120140421013022.00-8223-9863-X10.1515/9780822398639(CKB)2550000001280285(CaPaEBR)ebrary10867872(SSID)ssj0001196055(PQKBManifestationID)12432439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196055(PQKBWorkID)11162888(PQKB)10839935(MiAaPQ)EBC3007807877132946(OCoLC)1146001168(MdBmJHUP)muse80974(DE-B1597)553856(DE-B1597)9780822398639(OCoLC)1229160876(EXLCZ)99255000000128028520140418d1997 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe queen of America goes to Washington city essays on sex and citizenship /Lauren BerlantDurham, NC :Duke University Press,[1997]1 online resource (320 p.) Series QBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8223-1924-1 0-8223-1931-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-302) and index.Introduction : The intimate public sphere -- The theory of infantile citizenship -- Live sex acts (parental advisory: explicit material) -- America, "fat," the fetus -- Queer nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) -- The face of America and the state of emergency -- The face of America goes to Washington city : notes on diva citizenship -- Outtakes from the citizenship museum.In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealized images and narratives about sex and citizenship that now dominate the U.S. public sphere, Berlant argues that the political public sphere has become an intimate public sphere. She asks why the contemporary ideal of citizenship is measured by personal and private acts and values rather than civic acts, and the ideal citizen has become one who, paradoxically, cannot yet act as a citizen—epitomized by the American child and the American fetus.As Berlant traces the guiding images of U.S. citizenship through the process of privatization, she discusses the ideas of intimacy that have come to define national culture. From the fantasy of the American dream to the lessons of Forrest Gump, Lisa Simpson to Queer Nation, the reactionary culture of imperilled privilege to the testimony of Anita Hill, Berlant charts the landscape of American politics and culture. She examines the consequences of a shrinking and privatized concept of citizenship on increasing class, racial, sexual, and gender animosity and explores the contradictions of a conservative politics that maintains the sacredness of privacy, the virtue of the free market, and the immorality of state overregulation—except when it comes to issues of intimacy.Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City is a stunning and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of mass mediation. As it opens a critical space for new theory of agency, its narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers to rethink what it means to be American and to seek salvation in its promise.Series Q.Essays on sex and citizenshipPolitical participationUnited StatesPolitical cultureUnited StatesConservatismUnited StatesCitizenshipSocial aspectsUnited StatesIntimacy (Psychology)Political aspectsUnited StatesSex customsPolitical aspectsUnited StatesSocial valuesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesPolitical participationPolitical cultureConservatismCitizenshipSocial aspectsIntimacy (Psychology)Political aspectsSex customsPolitical aspectsSocial valuesPolitical aspects323/.042/0973323.0420973Berlant Lauren Gail1957-1023120NDDNDDNDDBOOK9910813712603321The queen of America goes to Washington city3949669UNINA