Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 211 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

1. " ... Range[s] from children's animation to avant-garde performance and queer art to think about ways of being and knowing that stand outside of conventional understandings of success"--Introduction.

Subject

1. Social epistemology
2. Failure (Psychology)
3. Stupidity
4. Queer theory

Contents

1. Introduction: Low theory -- Animating revolt and revolting animation -- Dude, where's my phallus? : forgetting, losing, looping -- The queer art of failure -- Shadow feminisms : queer negativity and radical passivity -- "The killer in me is the killer in you" : homosexuality and fascism -- Animating failure : ending, fleeing, surviving.

Call number

1. JFE 15-356

Note

1. "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

Author

1. Halberstam, Jack, 1961-

Title

1. The queer art of failure / Judith Halberstam.

Imprint

1. Durham : Duke University Press, ©2011.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.

LCCN

1. 2011010762

ISBN

1. 9780822350286 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0822350289 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780822350453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0822350459 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 15-356