Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations,…
In a radical rereading of the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Midd…
In a radical rereading of the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Midd…
Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In Proust among the Nations,…
"The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature--and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relat…
The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature - and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relat…
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modernpederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent…
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Attachment genealogies of pederastic modernity -- Light of a dead star : the nostalgic modernity of prison pederasty -- Racial fetishism, gay liberation, and the temporalities of the erotic -- Pederastic kinship -- Enemies of the state : terrorism, violence, and the affective po…
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexuality queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponen…
Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history
by Amin, Kadji
fromTheory Q
Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary q…