Deleuze and Queer Theory (Deleuze Connections) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748634053 ISBN 13: 9780748634057

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, itsuggests an alternative to Butler's matter/representation binary. It thus dares to askhow to think sexuality and sex outside the discursive and linguistic context that hascome to dominate contemporary research in social sciences and humanities. Deleuze and Queer Theory is a provocative and often militant collection that explores a diverse range of themes including: the revisiting of the term 'queer'; a rethinking of the sex-gender distinction as being implied in Queer Theory; an exploration of queer temporalities; the non/re-reading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze/Guattari philosophy. It will be essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy, but also in the fields of sexuality, gender and feminist theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Chrysanthi Nigianni is PhD candidate, School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

Merl Storr is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London.

Review:

A timely and important contribution to the growing body of critical literature on queer studies and postmodernisms... This collection will be indispensable for future scholarship.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0748634053
• ISBN 13: 9780748634057
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Nigianni Chrysanthi, Storr Merl