Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing...
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Author: Elizabeth Freeman
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Language: English
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Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Freeman, Elizabeth

Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

¥9,536

Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

¥9,536
Author: Elizabeth Freeman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines work by visual artists who emerged in a commodified, "postfeminist," and "postgay" world. Yet they do not fully accept the dissipation of political and critical power implied by the idea that various political and social battles have been won and are now consigned to the past. By privileging temporal gaps and narrative detours in their work, these artists suggest ways of putting the past into meaningful, transformative relation with the present. Such "queer asynchronies" provide opportunities for rethinking historical consciousness in erotic terms, thereby countering the methods of traditional and Marxist historiography. Central to Freeman's argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity; temporal drag, the visceral pull of the past on the supposedly revolutionary present; and erotohistoriography, the conscious use of the body as a channel for and means of understanding the past. Time Binds emphasizes the critique of temporality and history as crucial to queer politics.

Author: Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/29/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822348047

About the Author

Elizabeth Freeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture, also published by Duke University Press.


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