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Beside you in time : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / / Elizabeth Freeman



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Autore: Freeman Elizabeth <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beside you in time : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / / Elizabeth Freeman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2019
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2019
©2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
Disciplina: 306.7601
Soggetto topico: Time - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Homosexuality - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Time perception in literature
Human body in literature
American literature - African American authors - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Queer theory
Soggetto non controllato: Literary Criticism
Semiotics & Theory
Social Science
Gender Studies
Ethnic Studies/African American Studies
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.
Sommario/riassunto: In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.
Titolo autorizzato: Beside you in time  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4780-0635-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910772089103321
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